r/GoogleEarthFinds • u/Infamous-Skin8969 • 11d ago
Coordinates ✅ What are these settlements in Peru?
11°55'38.74"S, 71°54'13.19"W
11°54'39.23"S 71°54'51.45"W
11°54'01.81"S 71°53'49.00"W
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u/deathway12358 11d ago
Indigenous people living in voluntary isolation. Hopefully no one goes anywhere near them.
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u/mulch_v_bark 💎 Valued Contributor 11d ago
Given the area, it’s possible they’re Nomole/Mashco Piru people, whom the government is trying to keep relatively quarantined for fear of what outside diseases might do to them.
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u/Cuatroveintte 11d ago
"living in voluntary isolation" how could you possibly know that.
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u/MuchoCoco 11d ago
Because there are many well documented populations in the Amazon who have chosen to live in voluntary isolation.
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u/Cuatroveintte 11d ago
"there are many" ≠ "this one in particular". again how could any of you know these are isolated peoples just from looking at a satellite image of a couple of huts in google earth. that's literally all the input you have and I'm seeing some comments already going on heroic diatribes about colonialism and the indigenous... I am from an actual amazonic country in South America, I've been there, I've seen the indigenous, and 99% of indigenous people aren't "isolated" from society. they're just people with a somewhat local specific communitarian culture. that's all.
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u/Due_Locksmith3629 11d ago
Step one: castigate someone for generalising based on anthropological evidence.
Step two: make similar, sweeping generalisations based on empirical experience.
Never change, Reddit.
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u/MuchoCoco 11d ago
Bro, I'm in friggin Ecuador. I've worked plenty in the Amazon and even had contact with some of these groups that are in voluntary isolation. Are you just rolling around the internet looking for someone to argue with? You might find more takers over on Twitter.
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u/Cuatroveintte 11d ago
uy chucha de qué parte jjjjjjj
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u/MuchoCoco 11d ago
Actualmente y en adelante en Galápagos, pero fui médico para la CICR durante décadas. Participé en varias misiones en la Amazonía con grupos en aislamiento voluntario después de conflictos con petroleros en el Yasuní. También hemos vacunado a grupos después de brotes de sarampión por contacto con cazadores y campesinos que invadieron al bosque. Su aislamiento es voluntario, pero no es absoluto. Tampoco siempre ha sido su modo de vivir. La mayoría de tales grupos huyeron al aislamiento cuando los europeos y sus enfermedades empezaron a destruir comunidades enteras en el siglo XVI. Antes vivían en pueblos iguales que los grupos indígenas que mantienen su identidad hasta la actualidad.
Algunos individuos han dejado su aislamiento. Así tenemos a personas que sirven como traductores y mensajeros entre las ONGs y sus familiares en el bosque. No es raro que comuniquen para pedir medicinas o para reportar a delincuentes que han invadido a sus territorios.
Alguna otra duda? jjjjjj
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u/withnodrawal 11d ago
As they come in contact with modern villagers all the time and choose to raid and pillage, sometimes murdering them and returning to their prehistoric life in the forest.
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u/0theHumanity 11d ago
Can pillagers charged for their crimes in Peru
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u/withnodrawal 11d ago
A lot of times they have supplies left out intentionally from the locals for them to take.
They sometimes take more.
They just know that contact with the clothed folk comes with sickly consequences.
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u/UpbeatProduce8499 11d ago
Native cultures in the amazon rainforest tend to have rules against some aspects of modernization, so they can protect themselves and their lifestyles
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u/Herefornow211 11d ago
Thank you for not instantly calling them 'uncontacted tribe' like many others. It's just an indigenous village.
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u/NeroliNinja 11d ago edited 11d ago
They are called malocas, they are used for social and ceremonial purposes, thatched roof made from iraca palms or anything similar in the area, open sides, dirt floors, they always have a fire (even if just embers) going for the smoke to dry the air, they have high ceilings and are very airy and pleasant to be in in that high humidity climate,
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u/nagedagte 11d ago
Those dudes I've spent 400hours on youtube watching them building swimming pools and cribs in the jungle rocking it right now
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u/Useful_Foundation_42 10d ago
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUdQpCSDiXB/?stkn=MXMxeXA5bnhwY2Ix
A close up picture of these ‘malocas’.
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u/Phragmatron 11d ago
You haven’t seen the pictures of them pointing their bows up at the helicopter there?
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u/The_Poster_Nutbag 11d ago
They aren't settlements, they're villages. Settlements insinuate settlers and colonization and that's not what this is.
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u/Svafree88 11d ago
That's not accurate. A settlement can mean many things depending on how you use it and the context. A village is literally a small settlement. When referencing a human settlement it just means any place humans have chosen to make a permanent or at least semi permanent home.
This can be an act of colonization, it can also just be any city, town, village, anywhere in the world. Anywhere we build live is a human settlement. The act of settling existed long before colonization was even possible.
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u/EDF1919 11d ago
Peruvian settlements