UNAPROA was founded by deputies of six village communities in the Brunca Region in the year 1995. This association has the ambition of promoting the organic agriculture and green tourism

Ecotourism

Ecotourism is a form of tourism visiting fragile, pristine, and usually protected areas, intended as a low impact and often small scale alternative to standard commercial tourism...

. Its domicile is situated in El General

El General

El General is a Panamanian Reggae artist considered by some to be one of the Fathers of Reggaeton. During the early 1990s, he initiated the Spanish spoken dancehall that would later become reggaeton...

 in Costa Rica

Costa Rica

Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....

. The members are mostly campesinos

Peasant

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, who husband small fields at the Talamanca

Cordillera de Talamanca

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 mountains. Meanwhile the community has grown and now embraces deputies of forty villages, one of them indigenous

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

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UNAPROA has cooperated for several years with the Austria

Austria

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n magazine Grünen Bildungswerkstatt.