It shares the reserve's name and serves as a symbiotic support to its conservation goals. Approximately a third of your payment is destined to the various management programs of Rumi Wilco: natural reforestation, riverbank repair from floods, nature trails, scientific research, community services and general maintenance.
Argentinean co-owners and founders, Orlando (naturalized Ecuadorian) and Alicia Falco, are botanists and former Galápagos naturalist guides who have been here since 1991.
They live on the property and were able to obtain protected, reserve status from the government in 2000, piecing together their property with adjacent ones owned by a few other people.
The lodgings on the reserve are made from sustainable materials, including wood, adobe and tiles. For these reasons, we encourage travellers who visit VILCA-BAMBA (plain of the sacred tree -the Wilco- to ancient Incas) to consider this as a place to stay.
The Pole House: It is a wooden house on stilts hand-built in 1992, on the narrow strip of flood plain formed at the base of Rumi Wilco steepest lands. It is immersed in natural seclusion, by an andean stream, yet very close to the village centre.
Electricity.
Furnished kitchen.
Drinking water provided directly from the water table below.
Outdoor fire pit.
Hot shower.
Balcony to river.
Nature trails at doorstep.
2 persons, $13 each
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