Matarjawira

The Matar Jawira flows across the Bolivian altiplano near Toledo, through the ancestral country of the Q’asaya communities. It is a branch of the Desaguadero, the river that carries water south from Lake Titicaca towards Lake Poopó. On this high plateau streams, wetlands and pasture interrupt broad dry plains, forming part of the lands held and worked by local ayllus.