Sachamama Ethnobotanical Garden

EL JARDIN ETNOBOTANICO
DE SACHAMAMA

Sachamama Ethnobotanical Garden was founded in 1990 by Francisco Montes Shuna, a well-known Amazonian ethnobotanist and cousin of famed Peruvian visionary artist Pablo Amaringo Shuna. The Garden is located about an hour outside of Iquitos, Peru. It is a nicely-conceived conservatory focusing on the vast array of medicinal plants for which the upper Amazon basin is famous. It is rapidly becoming an important learning center for local and international visitors. The Garden's labeled botanical inventory presently exceeds one thousand species of medicinal and culturally-important plants.

THE SACHAMAMA MISSION
Declarations by Francisco Montes, Director of La Sachamama Ethnobotanical Garden - 1997

To promote mutually-sustaining interrelationships between endemic peoples and the rainforest

To preserve the biodiversity of the Amazonian rainforest for posterity

To educate the world about the global importance of the rainforest and stimulate activism to curtail the current rate of rainforest habitat loss

To sustain ancestral indigenous plant cultivars of cultural and medicinal importance

To encourage and promote the cultivation of rare, useful medicinal plants by the mestizo and indigenous populations

To develop medicinal gardens in local communities throughout the region

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