The 13 April 2012, The Regional Meeting of Community Participation of the Ancestral Peoples of La Guajira will be held, for the analysis of environmental policy.

La actividad, coordinated by Corpoguajira, Its main objectives are to design and implement strategies for the development and dissemination of a sustainable environmental culture with the environment., in order to promote the reorientation of economic processes, social and cultural.

The department of La Guajira presents several ethnicities and social groups that make it a multicultural and multilingual region.. The 44% of the population is indigenous. In accordance with the positioning of a public policy of indigenous peoples ordered by the Constitutional Court, the car 004 of 2009, declares that 34 indigenous peoples, including the Wiwa, Kogi and Wayúu, They are in danger of physical and cultural extinction for this reason the national government, has considered these populations as subjects of rights who must be consulted when some provisions may affect them.

The event will take place from 9:00 a.m. in the auditorium of the Corporation.