And have you seen the support and coverage their ultra-pituco lifestyle magazine Somos gives to indigenous and environmental causes, particularly in the Amazon? The world is a topsy turvy place of competing views and interests, yes, even in Lima, and yes, even in Lima’s media.

Here’s an article on Shipibos living in poverty on the Rimac I know you will like. Note the source at the end. Shipibos of the river Rimac.

You are right about the lack of non-rural migration of indigenous groups, but I think this would be impossible to represent on a single map or chart. It would probably require a thousand page document! I was hoping, (as I am sure El Comercio was with the base map) to provide a rough overview.

The concept that Indigenous peoples are only rural, and that one has to dress, speak, live in certain way to be consider as a Native person, is a wrong concept that is being discharged more every day by our communities.

When they move to big cities, Amazon Indigenous communities cannot keep their languages, only within their households, but even if their children speak only Spanish, their racial heritage doesn’t change. The amount of Indigenous population is radically modified by the idea that urban Indigenous peoples shouldn’t be counted as Natives.