RESERVA INDIGENA MAKÁ

The country's main Maká community (about a thousand people) welcomes visitors curious about its culture and traditions, including ancestral dances and songs. The Maká natives come from the Chaco Boreal. In 1940, after the destruction of their habitat in the name of "development", most of them took refuge in the Colonia Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, in the department of Presidente Hayes. In 1985, following severe flooding, most of them settled in the Nueva Colonia Indígena Maká de Mariano Roque Alonso.