What is Pintag Amaru?

 "Píntag Amaru" is a space that seeks to gather the thoughts, experiences, problems and proposals of diverse groups, organizations and social communities that need to be made visible and evidenced. We are a movement that proposes to preserve all varieties of seeds in order to maintain native forests, food and ancestral knowledge for land management, housing construction and protection of the natural environment.

Píntag Amaru is a non-profit community movement that aims to make society aware of the importance of implementing good food practices in daily life, recovering the knowledge of grandfathers and grandmothers that are being erased by modernity and putting it into practice to form an intimate relationship between the runa and all the forces of nature. Its fundamental basis is that children, adolescents, young people and adults understand the importance of protecting the place where they live, their people and their roots.

This collective works in the Parish of Píntag, one of the largest parishes in the Canton of Quito with 16,000 inhabitants, has 33 neighborhoods and is a space with an immense extension of paramos, astro-archaeological sites, flora and fauna, as well as conflicts and needs. At the same time it promotes a space of agro-ecology and permaculture, focused on the production of our own food in a natural way.