Development of luxury tourism and infrastructure is behind conflicts with indigenous communities. 

The Chaco Ra’anga travel and art project will reveal the diversity of the Chaco, as well as the cultural and environmental conflicts afflicting the region, the second largest forested area in South America spanning parts of Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil. 

The Incas, living as they often did at 3,000 meters, focused on the Sun’s ability to provide warmth “for their fertile, glacier-fed tropical valleys.”  They understood, as did “the Egyptians and others,” “that the movements of the sun, moon, and stars could predict rain and temperatures.”