Caño Iguana (Jotï)

What this is

Caño Iguana (Jotï) is an Indigenous territory in Venezuela, home to the Jotï, covering about 2,269 km². RAISG records 543 inhabitants. Indigenous-held forest is among the best-conserved in the basin; detections inside it are a measure of pressure on the people who keep it standing.

Detections centred inside · as of 2026-08-23

• Illegal-mining scars: 0 — Amazon Mining Watch, cumulative since 2018
• DETER deforestation alerts cover Brazil only; for Venezuela the live dashboard shows Global Forest Watch's integrated alerts over this boundary
• Active fires are a 48-hour feed and change daily — see them live on the dashboard below

A detection counts here when its centre point falls inside the boundary at the time of the monthly bake; extents are the detections' own areas and can straddle the edge. A detection is a satellite-seen change, not a verdict on legality.

Key figures

• Area (GIS): 226,912 ha · 2,269 km²
• Area (official registry): 223,078 ha
• Type: Tierra Indígena
• Country: Venezuela
• Centre: 5°28′N 65°26′W

From orbit

Esri · Maxar World Imagery — an undated mosaic, not a dated capture.

See it live

• Open on the live map — flown to the boundary with the Indigenous lands layer on; toggle fires, alerts and mining over it
• Open the 3D globe

More Indigenous territories in Venezuela

• Territorio tradicional Pemon — 69,229 km²
• Territorio Ye'kwana-Sanema de Medio Alto Caura — 36,012 km²
• Territorio tradicional Yanomami de Alto Orinoco — 35,890 km²
• Territorio Tradicional Warao — 28,449 km²
• Territorio tradicional Uwottüja — 22,955 km²

Source

Boundary, category and area: RAISG (Amazon Network of Georeferenced Socio-Environmental Information). Mining: Amazon Mining Watch (Earth Genome, CC-BY 4.0). Alerts: INPE DETER. Joined by Canopy Watch on 2026-08-23.

Elsewhere

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