Tikuna and Uitoto indigenous communities believe that Saltlicks are sacred natural spaces (SNS) in the Amazon Rainforest, health and nutrition spaces of important species of fauna, especially mammals and birds.The perception, knowledge, use and spiritual management of saltlicks under the values of these indigenous communities help the conservation of more than 130 species of flora identified in forest inventories in saltlicks.The purpose of this article is to identify the composition and biodiversity of the forest in a sample of 11 saltlicks (6 in the TICOYA Resguardo 2 in the San Martin de Amacayacu (SMA) 3 area, Tikuna community, and 5 in RITU Resguardo, LosKilometrosarea, Uitoto community), recognizing genres (or species when were possible) and frequently botanical families.The data were obtained through field work with forest inventories by transects of 4 × 50 meters made in the years 2015, 2016 and 2017, with help of guides and knowledgeable flora elders from both communities.As a conclusion, the saltlicks samples in both Resguardos have 1 This article is part of the thesis developed of the SUSFOR Doctorate Program for the University of Lisbon-Higher Institute of Agronomy (ISA) with the title "Sacred Natural Places in the Tropical Forest, case study saltlicks in territories of indigenous communities" Tikuna and Uitoto (Colombia Amazon Trapeze).2Legal and sociopolitical institution of a special nature, made up of one or more indigenous communities.With a collective property title enjoys the guarantees of private property, owns its territory and is governed, for the management of this and its internal life, by an autonomous organization protected by the indigenous jurisdiction and its own normative system.
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Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond