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This cozy wooden room features bunk beds with blue-striped bedding, a window overlooking greenery, a simple wooden desk and chair, and rustic wood-paneled walls and floors.
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Volunteer experience at an ecovillage and educational space in Cunco, southern Chile

  • Last activity : 29 Nov 2025

Availability

  2025 

 Min stay requested: at least 2 weeks

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  • Description

    Description

    We are an ecovillage and educational center in development, located in the commune of Cunco, Araucanía Andina, Chile. We are driven by the care of the forest and all ecosystems, by sharing knowledge to live consciously and minimize human impact, and by generating supportive networks of collaboration among everyone. We aim to sustain and care for life through the development of human and environmental empathy, as a tool for personal and collective transformation.

    We live in the beautiful Huichahue River basin, along its banks, coexisting with and caring for its characteristic flora, fauna, and fungi. This area of ​​high biodiversity features winding meadows and a native pre-Andean forest of coigüe, lingue, laurel, ulmo, arrayán, and other trees. Our community includes the hawk, the kingfisher, the fox, the short-tailed snake, the puma, the chucao tapaculo, the güiña, and many others.

    Today, we are lovingly developing and caring for this space, progressing step by step with fieldwork, ecological restoration, gardening, workshops, waste management, composting toilets, camping, and more. We have been building our houses, and a small group of companions has begun to live together in our village. Our meeting place is the community house, an old farmhouse that we have been restoring, where we exchange experiences and knowledge, with the goal of continuing to learn together how to live and sustain ourselves by progressively putting into practice empathy and all those actions that bring more life to life.

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    Somos una ecoaldea y espacio educativo en formación, gestándose en la comuna de Cunco, Araucanía Andina, Chile. Nos mueve el cuidado del bosque y todo ecosistema, el compartir saberes para habitar conscientes del impacto humano y disminuirlo, el generar redes afectivas de colaboración entre todos(as), apuntamos a sustentar y cuidar la vida a partir del desarrollo de la empatía humana y ambiental, como herramienta al servicio de la transformación personal y colectiva.

    Vivimos en la hermosa cuenca del río Huichahue, a sus orillas, cohabitamos y cuidamos de su flora, fauna y funga característica, una zona de alta biodiversidad, donde resaltan sinuosas praderas y un bosque nativo precordillerano de coigües, lingues, laureles, ulmos, arrayanes y más, donde forman parte de nuestra comunidad el aguilucho, el martín pescador, el zorro, la culebra de cola corta, el puma, el chucao, la güiña y muchos otros.

    Hoy nos encontramos en el proceso de ir con mucho cariño levantando y cuidando de este espacio, avanzando paso a paso en labores de campo, de restauración ecológica, de huerta, talleres, manejo de residuos, baños secos, camping, entre otros. Hemos ido construyendo nuestras casas y un primer pequeño grupo de compañeros ha comenzado a cohabitar en nuestra aldea. Nuestro lugar de encuentro es la casa comunitaria, una antigua casa de campo que hemos ido restaurando, donde intercambiamos experiencias y saberes, con el objetivo de seguir aprendiendo juntos a cohabitar y sustentarse poniendo en práctica progresivamente la empatía y todas aquellas acciones que entreguen más vida a la vida.

  • Types of help and learning opportunities

    Types of help and learning opportunities

    Help with Eco Projects
    Gardening
    DIY and building projects
    Animal Care
    Farmstay help
    General Maintenance
  • UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN sustainability goals this host is trying to achieve

    UN goals
    No poverty
    Zero hunger
    Good health and well-being
    Quality education
    Gender equality
    Clean water and sanitation
    Affordable and clean energy
    Decent work and economic growth
    Industries, innovation and infrastructure
    Reduce inequality
    Sustainable cities and communities
    Responsible consumption and production
    Climate action
    Life below water
    Life on land
    Peace, justice and strong institutions
    Partnerships for the goals
  • Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Cultural exchange and learning opportunities

    Travelers will have a meaningful experience of community life in a developing ecovillage, cohabiting in a place where we cultivate a culture of human and environmental empathy that promotes personal and collective transformation.

    It is a meeting place for different realities and cultures: peasant culture, regenerative culture, young people returning from the city to the countryside, travelers from different countries who come to contribute and visit us, ecovillagers who live here, among others. All this cultural diversity allows us to generate an enriched exchange, where we share in our daily lives various forms of conscious eating, self-sufficiency practices, community life dynamics, forms of communication, languages, rural traditions, and more.

    It also fosters daily learning and exchange of diverse knowledge necessary for the life and co-construction of this collective initiative, for example: agroecological farming, bioconstruction, production of agricultural products, community life management, flora and fauna identification, and moments of connection with oneself, the community, and nature.

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    Los viajeros podrán tener una experiencia significativa de vida comunitaria en una ecoaldea en gestación, cohabitando en un lugar donde cultivamos una cultura de empatía humana y ambiental que promueva procesos de transformación personales y colectivos.

    Es un espacio de encuentro entre diferentes realidades y culturas: cultura campesina, cultura regenerativa, jóvenes que retornan de la ciudad al campo, viajeros de diferentes países que vienen a contribuir y visitarnos, ecoaldeanos que habitan en el lugar, entre otras. Toda esa diversidad cultural nos permite generar un intercambio enriquecido, donde compartimos en nuestro cotidiano diversas formas de alimentación consciente, prácticas de autosuficiencia, dinámicas de vida comunitaria, formas de comunicación, idiomas, tradiciones campestres, entre otras.

    También se genera aprendizaje e intercambio cotidiano de diversos saberes que son necesarios para la vida y co-construcción de esta iniciativa colectiva, por ejemplo: cultivar agroecológicamente, bioconstrucción, elaboración de productos del campo, gestión de la vida comunitaria, identificación de flora y fauna, momentos de conexión consigo mismo, el colectivo y la naturaleza.

  • Help

    Help

    Depending on the time of year, the project's needs, and the volunteers' motivations, areas of collaboration may include:

    🌱 Agroecology: gardening, composting, fence maintenance.

    🏡 Bioconstruction: using straw bales, mud, local wood, and maintaining structures.

    🌳 Ecological restoration: reforestation with native species and its maintenance.

    💧 Water management: maintenance of biofilters, canals, and ponds.

    🌻 Community life: communal cooking, tidying common areas, and gathering wild fruits.

    📚 Education and communication: support in workshops, photography, social media, and educational content creation.

    🐕 Animal care: feeding dogs or chickens.

    (Always according to your physical capacity).

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    Dependiendo de la época del año, las necesidades del proyecto y las motivaciones de los voluntarios/as, las áreas de colaboración pueden ser:

    🌱 Agroecología: huerta, compostaje, mantención de cercos.
    🏡 Bioconstrucción: Uso de fardos de paja, barro, madera local, mantenimiento de estructuras.
    🌳 Restauración ecológica: Reforestación con especies nativas y su mantenimiento.
    💧 Gestión del agua: Mantenimiento de biofiltros, canales y estanques.
    🌻 Vida comunitaria: Cocina colectiva, orden de espacios comunes, recolección de frutos silvestre.
    📚 Educación y comunicación: apoyo en talleres, fotografía, redes sociales, contenido educativo.
    🐕 Cuidado de animales: Nutrición de perrito o gallinas.

    (Siempre acorde a tu capacidad física).

  • Languages

    Languages spoken
    Spanish: Fluent
    English: Beginner

    This host offers a language exchange
    This host has indicated that they are interested in sharing their own language or learning a new language.
    You can contact them directly for more information.

  • Accommodation

    Accommodation

    Sleeping cabin located in a shared room of the Community House. We also have a gas stove, a wood-burning stove, a composting toilet, and a hot shower.

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    Camarote para dormir, ubicado en una pieza compartida de la Casa Comunitaria. Ademas contamos con cocina a gas, cocina a leña, baño seco y ducha de agua caliente.

  • What else ...

    What else ...

    We are located in a region of sublime natural beauty, with numerous nearby excursion options. Some highlights include Conguillio National Park, home to the imposing Llaima volcano amidst a prehistoric landscape, with abundant araucaria forests that are thousands of years old. It is one of the most beautiful nature reserves in the country. We are also near the stunning Lake Colico, with its pristine waters and native forest scenery.

    Right here in the eco-village, we are immersed in a beautiful natural environment, surrounded by native forest and traversed by the waters of the Huichahue River.

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    Nos encontramos en una región de naturaleza sublime, con múltiples alternativas de paseos en las cercanías, podemos mencionar algunas que destacan, por ejemplo: el Parque nacional Conguillio, donde encontramos el imponente volcán Llaima en medio de un escenario natural prehistórico, con abundantes bosque de araucarias que llegan a ser milenarias. Una de las reservas naturales más hermosas del país. También nos encontramos cerca del precioso lago Colico, con aguas puras y paisajes de bosque nativo para disfrutar.

    Aquí mismo en la ecoaldea estamos inmersos en un entorno de naturaleza muy hermoso, rodeados de bosque nativo y atravesados por las aguas del río Huichahue.

  • A little more information

    A little more information

    • Internet access

    • Limited internet access

      Limited internet access

    • We have pets

    • We are smokers

    • Can host families

  • Can host digital nomads

    Can host digital nomads

    This host has indicated that they love having digital nomads stay.

  • How many Workawayers can stay?

    How many Workawayers can stay?

    Two

  • My animals / pets

    My animals / pets

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The image depicts a serene river flowing through a lush forest, with a small waterfall and rocks lining the riverbank, surrounded by vibrant greenery.
The image shows a construction site with a building under development, featuring a wooden frame and a concrete foundation, surrounded by a grassy area with trees and a clear sky.
The image depicts a serene garden scene with a variety of plants and flowers, set against a backdrop of rolling hills and trees under a clear blue sky.
This cozy wooden room features bunk beds with blue-striped bedding, a window overlooking greenery, a simple wooden desk and chair, and rustic wood-paneled walls and floors.
The image depicts six individuals standing in a grassy field, with a large tree behind them and a mountainous landscape in the background under a blue sky.

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