Water as a source of governance in colombian indigenous communities

Historical reflection 1992-2021

Abstract

The following article of reflection has the objective of recognizing the relationship of water as a source of governance in Colombia between 1992 and 2021. The methodology develops an exploratory approach of a documentary nature that contemplates issues related to the indigenous vision of the territory, the relationship of the legal norms with the indigenous peoples of Colombia, and water as a right due to its autonomous condition or its connection to life and integrity. As a result, the relationship between water and the indigenous worldview, the normative contradictions vis-à-vis indigenous peoples, and what implies that the State contemplates water as a fundamental right in connection, or contemplates it under the autonomous condition of an unnamed fundamental right, are analyzed. It is concluded that seeing water as a source of governance is something that has not been worked on previously from the West, but it has been a fundamental element within the worldview of indigenous ethnic groups, which has come into tension with economic policies and particular interests, making It is necessary that water be seen as a right under the dimensions of patrimony, good for public use and autonomous fundamental right susceptible to protection by means of guardianship.