Chambira

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Amazonian River basin located in Loreto, Peru. The Chambira River is a major tributary of the Marañón River, and has been the traditional territory of the Urarina peoples since at least the past 350 years, if not much longer. Comprised of "palm-swamps", the region takes its name from the Chambira palm. Until relativey recently, the Chambira Basin has not been the focus of mapping the Spanish empire or the Peruvian nation. No major geographical surveys of the Chambira Basin were mounted during the nineteenth century heyday of exploration. It was not until the 1970s discovery of hydrocarbons in the region and subsequent indigenous peoples' mobilization, and government backed

neo-liberal legislation that the Chambira River's lands have been mapped.