Kichwa Runa_

The Kichwa are an indigenous people made up of various communities of the Lower Putumayo, who have ancestral relations with indigenous Peruvians and/or Ecuadorians.

The Kichwa communities of the Andean and Amazonian region are bilingual, speaking Spanish and Runa-shimi, a language largely spread by the Jesuit missionaries (Edufuturo, 2006), and the only one that survived from the infinite number of languages spoken by all the communities in the region, which became extinct (Observatory of the Presidential Program for Human Rights and IHL, 2009).