Guillermo Arévalo
Shipibo shaman in Peru (born 1952) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Guillermo Arévalo Valera (born 1952) is a Shipibo vegetalista and businessperson from the Maynas Province of Peru. His Shipibo name is Kestenbetsa.
Guillermo Arévalo Valera | |
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Kestenbetsa | |
Born | 1952 Yarinacocha, Ucayali Region, Peru |
Occupation(s) | Businessperson, vegetalista |
Known for | AMETRA |
Notable work | Las plantas medicinales y su beneficio en la salud Shipibo-Conibo (1994) |
In 1982, Arévalo co-founded Aplicación de Medicina Tradicional (AMETRA), an organization that sought to improve the sustainability of health care for the Shipibo-Conibo people by integrating traditional plant medicines. He is also the owner of Anaconda Cosmica, a retreat lodge in Peruvian Amazonia. The lodge is marketed to health tourists who are interested in ayahuasca and other traditional medicines of the Amazon.
Among his several children[1] is James Arévalo (b. 1972), a vegetalista whose Shipibo name is Panshincopi.[2]