Epulafkenmapu Maihue Ranco is the name of a multi-year, intercultural and interdisciplinary study on the health of the watershed. This study focuses on combining ancestral Indigenous knowledge and multiple forms of scientific knowledge.

We metaphorically use the term “trawünko” or the union of two branches of a river to explain the process for how work across different ways of knowing in this decolonial project.

Photos are by Jennifer Rojas and the map is by Sergio Iacobelli and Sarah Kelly with community input.