Origin of disability in the rural multiethnic territory of Leticia, Amazonas

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Objective: The article is part of the thesis entitled: Dialogic Multicultural Curriculum in Indigenous Territory for Students with Diverse Learning in Leticia, Colombia. Its objective is to compare the origins of disability from the cosmovision and multicultural education in this ethnic territory, the rural area of Leticia.
Originality/contribution: This research contribution makes visible the identity rights of ethnic diversity and cosmovision, as well as recognizes the ways of naming the world and the concepts rooted in their multiculturality.
Method: The epistemological basis is hermeneutic with dense descriptive scopes. It is a qualitative study of the action-research type, with an ethnographic-multicultural design and a historical-hermeneutic approach.
Information Strategies/Data Collection: this research has used the technique of ethnographic interviews directed to knowledge keepers and communities belonging to ethnic groups such as the Magüta o Ticuna, Murui o Huitoto, Kukamɨe Kukamiria, Yaguas, and Yucuna, which are located in rural indigenous educational institutions. 

Conclusions: Disability in the territory of native peoples belonging to the municipality of Leticia in the Colombian Amazon has naming differences in each language; on the other hand, the origin of disability, also understood as a defect, is related to the cosmovision and ancestral practices that are transmitted orally from generation to generation. These narratives agree on the influence of the cosmos -through plants, animals, and the jungle, called Cutipe,- during pregnancy and the first months of life on the physical and mental formation of the human being.