Comuna Papaya Chica

What this is

Comuna Papaya Chica is an Indigenous territory in Ecuador, home to the Kichwa, covering about 165 km². 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 2026-09-12

• Illegal-mining scars: 0 — Amazon Mining Watch, cumulative since 2018
• DETER deforestation alerts cover Brazil only; for Ecuador 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): 16,520 ha · 165 km²
• Type: Tierra Comunitaría
• Country: Ecuador
• Centre: 0°01′S 75°42′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 Ecuador

• Núcleo del Parque Yasuní y T. Tagaeri - Taromenane — 7,606 km²
• Achuar — 6,105 km²
• Waorani — 5,981 km²
• Sapara — 2,486 km²
• Shiviar — 2,136 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 2026-09-12.

Elsewhere

• Ecuador — every area with a page, and the country's numbers
• Live dashboard — the 2D map with every layer and the 12-month timeline
• Earth Explorer — the 3D globe and curated places
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