CULTURAL, ECOLOGICAL AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF A LOCAL COMMUNITY: SANTA RITA, MIDDLE CHAO VALLEY, PERU
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Over view of the community
of Santa Rita


Statistics plaque


Current School, Santa Rita


Main Street, Santa Rita


Church, Santa Rita


Main plaza, Santa Rita


Adobe bricks drying, Santa Rita


Remainder of village after mudslide (former school), Santa Rita


Road along CHAVIMOCHIC Canal, downstream from Santa Rita


CHAVIMOCHIC main feeder canal, downstream from Santa Rita


Water main for all of Santa Rita


Prickly pear cactus fields
(grown to attract Cochineal bugs used for dyes)


Cow and Egrets, near Santa Rita

 


Rock river lining, near Santa Rita

 


Sand dunes
in the mountains, Chao valley

 


Sand covered Andean foothills seen from near Santa Rita

 


Papayas in field near Santa Rita

 


TV Antenna, gas generator powered
(no electricity in Santa Rita)

 


remnants of a structure, destroyed in 1997-98 El Nino
and our field vehicle

 


Abandoned vehicle, Santa Rita

 


Goat Herd, near Santa Rita

 


Dog on Roof, Chao

 

 


Our adopted duck, Santa Rita

 


Slopping the pigs, Santa Rita

 


Alfalfa cart for animal feed, Chao

 


Cemetary

 


Farmer and horse ploughing field, Santa Rita

 


Rooster, Santa Rita

 


Young girl playing house, Santa Rita

 


Julio Mendoza Huaman, Lt. Governor, Santa Rita and family

 


Audience and panel members, first town meeting, Santa Rita

 


Panel members, first town meeting, Santa Rita

 


Earthquake damage inside the medical clinic, Santa Rita

 


Dr. Art Campa, Eco-Sustainable Development project director, presenting Metro State Pin to Julio Mendoza Huaman, Lieutenant Governor, Santa Rita (pig skin on line in background)

 


School Board, Santa Rita

 


Ear piercing ceremony, Santa Rita

 

Mg. Eduardo Achutegui Giraldo, Dean of Social Sciences, UNT. Pat Cockerill, MSCD Anthropologist, Dr. Arthur Campa, Eco-Sustainable Development Project Director, with new godchild.

Mg. Eduardo Achutegui Giraldo, Dean of Social Sciences, UNT. Pat Cockerill, MSCD Anthropologist, Dr. Arthur Campa, Eco-Sustainable Development Project Director, with new godchild.

Santa Rita kids and Ellen Campa, MSCD Anthropologist, project coordinator

Bread Baker and head of Potable Water committee, Santa Rita

Listeners at town meeting, Santa Rita

Local kids


Santa Rita kids

Lucinda, weaver, Santa Rita

Weaving demonstration, Santa Rita