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The Centre

Huwã Karu Yuxibu Centre

Founded in August 2015 by Mapu Huni Kuin and Mirna Rosário, on 11 hectares purchased at km 36 of the Transacreana road, in rural Rio Branco.

Huni Kuin ceremony in a circle, outdoors
Acervo Mapu Huni Kuin (autoria a identificar)
Verified Translation
I also realised that demarcated land is not ours. It belongs to the Union, and the government may dispose of it as it wishes in the future. So I decided to enter the system: with the money I earned, I bought 11 hectares on the outskirts of Rio Branco, where I built the Huwã Karu Yuxibu Centre.
VEJA — Primeira Pessoa · 2023-08-05
Original (PT)

Percebi também que a terra demarcada não é nossa. Ela é da União, e o governo pode dispor dela como quiser no futuro. Por isso, decidi entrar no sistema: com o dinheiro que ganhei, comprei 11 hectares nos arredores de Rio Branco, onde construí o Centro Huwã Karu Yuxibu.

Verified Translation
Today the place shelters 42 families, around 210 people — who, without government support, were at risk in the big cities, including being recruited into crime. […] At the centre we preserve our culture and identity, including traditional cuisine and the ancestral knowledge of the forest.
VEJA — Primeira Pessoa · 2023-08-05
Original (PT)

Hoje, o local abriga 42 famílias, cerca de 210 pessoas — que, sem amparo do governo, corriam risco nas cidades grandes, inclusive sendo arregimentadas para o crime. […] No centro, preservamos nossa cultura e identidade, inclusive a culinária tradicional e os saberes ancestrais da floresta.

In numbers

42

families sheltered at the Centre

Source: VEJA, 05/08/2023

11 ha

of own land, bought with money earned from music and television

Source: VEJA, 05/08/2023

2.450 ha

of preserved reserve, acquired in 2023

Source: raw/biografia-expandida.md

11.000

seedlings planted in 2024

Source: DOSSIE-COMPLETO.md §6

What happens there

Shelter
Forty-two families, around 210 people, live at or pass through the Centre. The number varies with the flow.
Piti Kuin
The first traditional Huni Kuin restaurant in Rio Branco, opened in partnership with Instituto Alok.
Language and culture
Hãtxa Kuî, kenes, dances, prayers and craft — practised and taught day to day.
Food security
Vegetable gardens, fish and chicken farming to sustain those who live there.
Reforestation
Eleven thousand seedlings planted in 2024, within the Centre’s area and the reserve.
Prayer house
A space for ceremonies and for the medicines of the forest.
Student housing
Announced in 2025: housing for young Indigenous people attending university.
Image from the Huwã Karu Yuxibu Centre
Image from the Huwã Karu Yuxibu Centre
Image from the Huwã Karu Yuxibu Centre
Image from the Huwã Karu Yuxibu Centre
Image from the Huwã Karu Yuxibu Centre
Image from the Huwã Karu Yuxibu Centre

Acervo Mapu Huni Kuin · OGT Collaboration · Bryan Myr

Partners of the Centre

Instituto Alok

Som Nativo Collection, Piti Kuin restaurant, drinking water and reforestation at the Centre

Aniwa

Digital courses and fundraising campaign for the Centre (2021)

Voices of Amerikua

International support campaign for the Centre during the pandemic

The Boa Foundation

Support for territory and culture projects

El Puente Foundation

Institutional support for the Centre's projects

Nawabu Culture

Music label — official video for Habe Tabi Kayawei

Maria Farinha Filmes

Documentary with Alok and Indigenous leaders, written by Célia Xakriabá

Conscious Life

Teacher — session "The Amazon: Reciprocity, Regeneration, Sovereignty"

Where it is

Centro Huwã Karu Yuxibu
Transacreana km 36, Ramal Goiabal
via História Encantada
Rio Branco — Acre, Brasil

+55 68 9946-6416
@huwakaruyuxibu
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Support

The Huwã Karu Yuxibu Centre sustains itself through donations, through music, and through the work of those who live there.

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