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Recovering the amunas of Quilcamachay-Vicas

Together with Pepsico , in 2024 we will extend the implementation of a project in Nature-based Solutions to a new peasant community residing in the Santa Eulalia sub-basin. With the project we will contribute to increase the water security of the Quilcamachay-Vicas farming community and the population of Lima and Callao by recharging the local aquifers of the Quilcamachay micro-watershed. This, in turn, will generate greater water availability for the community’s economic activities and contribute to the city’s drinking water supply.

The Shampo-Mushca Mushca and Bado-Ñuñunguia amuna rehabilitation project includes the rehabilitation of 1.81 km distributed in 2 amunas located in the Quilcamachay-Vicas Campesino Community. In addition, the project will encourage the active participation of the community in activities such as capacity building and the adoption of actions to ensure the long-term operation of the amunas.

Year: 2024

Location: Quilcamachay-Vicas Rural Community (Huarochirí, Lima)

Recovering the amunas of Quilcamachay-Vicas

Our objective

Rehabilitate 1.81 km of the infiltration channel, an ancestral technology that contributes to water security by recharging the aquifers through infiltration.

We did it! These were the goals achieved!

Meta 1

313,673.00 m3 of water potentially infiltrated per year, an equivalent volume to supply the annual domestic consumption of drinking water for 4,911 Peruvians.

Meta 2

1.81 km of rehabilitated amuna.

Meta 3

Sensitized community members and citizens.

Meta 4

67.00 ha of conserved ecosystem that provides the ecosystemic service of water regulation.

We contribute to the SDGs

Hambre cero-2
Agua limpia y saneamiento-6
Ciudades y comunidades sostenibles-11
Acción por el clima-13
Vida de ecosistemas terrestres-15

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