economy in the Amazon
The Amazonian people mostly live on the horticultural activities developed in areas that are grazed, burned and cultivated known as Chagras. They plant varieties of yucca, especially bitter yucca to make with it the farina (flour) and the cazabe (cake), fundamental foods of the indigenous diet, varieties of yam, chontaduro, banana, maja, chilli, caimo, avocado , pineapple, pumpkin, papaya, annonaceous, lulo, marañon. Some groups grow sugarcane, corn and a few cocoa. In the southwest of the region, plantain is important in food. Cultivate for ritual consumption, tobacco, coca bushes and yajé vine. This economic activity completes the activities of hunting, fishing and gathering of fruits and useful materials, of wild origin. In some communities, the breeding of smaller species, especially chickens and pigs, has been introduced for trade. The Macú peoples depend for their subsistence on hunting and gathering. Also blowguns whose arrows poison with the curare to paralyze the prey. The fishing is done through the use of arrows, harpoons, zagallas, pots, tranpas called Kakure and free hooks or in spine and réndales. Rivers rich in fisheries are scarce, they are called white rivers, rich in nutrients such as Caquetá, Guaviare and Putumayo, which are born in the Andes. The Curripaco and Puinave produce excellent yucca graters; The three Macú peoples are specialists in the weaving of reed baskets and clay pots, the Tucano wooden benches in one piece, the Koraguaje weave cumare backpacks.