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Forming Formed: 2008 Established: 2009
2012 Aquarius Pioneer Outpost, Amazon Highlands
Puerto Ayacucho, Amazon,
Venezuela
(Approx, 180 KM South of Caicara del Orinoco - 100 KM East of Puerto Ayacucho)
 We are calling it 2012 Aquarius Pioneers because we want to sound groovy and hip like other people, and maybe its because we were children of Aquarius and being born before 1969 that song just continues to stimulate us positively.
Also known as Amazon Camp or the Amazon Highlands Cooperative; the developing community is an Aquarian Pioneer Project and preparing to begin building immediately Fall 2009 through Fall 2011
The community will serve as a crossroads for travelers, scientists, and explorers wishing to visit and interact with a truly international community in a campground community setting with full time residents from dozens of countries speaking at least a dozen or more languages plus English and Spanish as the Universal Languages.
We are seeking brilliant people with good intentions to live a peaceful and earnest life in an agrarian village where meals and spare time shall be communal affairs. Our remote location and simple building methods is offset by the intellectual base and diversity of our internationalism as a group.
Cooperative agrarian and artisan consensus ecological community that overlooks the Amazon Rainforest. The community is also an Aquarian Pioneer Project and being developed to serve as an practical business cooperative tourist outpost and camp for visiting botanists, explorers, researchers, documentary film makers and ecotourists in general.
It is situated at nearly 1200 meters above sea level and is the northernmost downward view of the Amazon Ventuari River drainage. The climate is 10 degrees cooler in general than the Amazon jungle floor, 3-5 kilometers away.
The community will be open to all people with the physical ability and mental fortitude to cope with the demands of the mountain valley climate and primitive initial conditions.
The project is being developed from Caracas (the capital of Venezuela), Puerto Ayacucho (the capital of the state of Amazonas), and from the location itself as possible by the founders. No one will physically be on site until September 2009.
There is no religious or political affiliations that we consider important for community cohesiveness. I guess if you were to label the cohesion factor one should call it hippie, whole earth, Gaia, mother nature, and self sufficiency lifestyle, is what we desire.
If something here is not well enough said or if additional information should be displayed please contact us and ask us, we will gladly help all who are equally considerate and sincere.
 
Website: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=29917689218
Contact:
David Jeffrey Wright
Caricuao
Caracas, Venezuela
Phone: (+58) (212) 516 0361, (+58) (424) 167 0551
Email This Community!
Former/Other Names: Amazon Camp
Last Updated:7/19/2009
 
Visitors Accepted
 (Open to overnight campers beginning in April 2010 with reservations.)
Visitor Process: During our preliminary and initial stages of development we anticipate some setbacks and delinquencies but we will make every effort to accommodate new potential residents that have valuable skills and resources to contribute to our piece of paradise and dream of the basic future. During this time we can only arrange a guide to take you and show you the site and the stakes we have pitched during a GPS survey. Currently the cost of a guide to the area is $1000 +/- and is a 3 day expedition. This will be extremely facilitated later once we have a community vehicle capable of the terrain, an ascending cable for gear, a good bike path, and several ethanol powered ultralight airplanes in place. Call one of the telephone numbers or send an email 60 days prior to visiting.
Network Affiliations:
Network Affiliations:
Fellowship for Intentional Community
:: GEN - Global Ecovillage Network
:: Ecovillage Network of the Americas
:: Utopian EcoVillage Network Federation
:: We are a very autonomous oeganization in how we affiliate with other organizations. However we do align our positions with others despite no official connections.
Statement of Housing Non-discrimination:
No Answer Provided
Population
Members(adults and children):
20
(Of all of the connections we have in the Facebook networks and those who we are talking with as of July our count is 20.)
Non-member Residents:
4
(Some locals that work with us are not members.)
Open to new members:
Yes
Government
Decision Making:
By consensus
(Cooperative Democratically Controlled Enterprise System, we are set-up as both an agricultural and land owner cooperative. Each person is a cooperative owner and holds one vote.)
Identified Leader:
Yes
(Yes, there will be a cooperative leader which may change at anytime. It is still one vote per person.)
Leadership Core Group:
Yes
(Charter Organizers and Founders are privilaged to desin the intial plans.)
Labor and Money
Financial Style:
100% income sharing
(The community is self sustaining but members may have independent income sources aside from community coop activities.)
Open to Members with Pre-existing Debt:
Yes
Labor Contribution:
Expected
(20 hours per week.)
Join Fee:
Yes
($2,500 is the base for one cooperative common share, it includes property title.)
Regular Fees:
Yes
(Time share community members are expected to pay a daily maintenance fee when visiting,)
Land and Buildings
Rural
Area:
15320.5 acres (6200.0 hectares)
(Very rural nature reserve with shared permaculture and agroforestry deve;opment.)
Land Owned By:
Another form of Non-profit
(Cooperative Association of Agricultural Freeholders)
Number of Residences:
32
(Current design is to have 5 sub communities connected by a nested center, each using a different building style. Like a 5 petal flower.)
Cohousing:
Yes
(To some degree because many common systems like meals, laundry, baths, and showers are central.)
Food, etc.
Percentage of Food Grown:
over 50%
(We will grow and cultivate all types of fruits, nuts and vegetables. Small livestock will be produced to complete eco-chains, grow worms and produce intensive agriculture.)
Share Community Meals:
Nearly all meals
Dietary Choice or Restrictions:
Diet is up to each individual
Dietary Practice:
Omnivorous
(Omnivorous with very little meat.)
Alcohol Use:
Used occasionally
(It will be commonplace to produce ethanol and artesenal ethanol based spirits.)
Tobacco Use:
Used Occasionally
Social Factors
Common Spiritual Practices:
No
(But people are welcome to practice their individual beliefs in their home and travel to attend events privately.)
Which Spiritual Traditions(s):
Paganism/Earth Religions
:: Native American
:: Unitarian Universalist
:: Ecumenical (includes "all religions")
:: Eclectic (integrates pieces from many religions)
Educational Style(s):
Private school at the community
(Venezuela cumpulsory education law permits minimum standard homeschool. Internet VSAT)
 
 


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