This small community has no more than 30 families, and it is made up mostly of migrants who settled the area in the nineteen sixties. Their man source of income has always been from logging, first working for an important lumber company, and now doing the same through a community-owned enterprise.

In the last two years, a tourist guide system has been implemented in Florida; they take tourists on nature walks for one or several days into the Park. The guides have been adequately trained, and one pays 20 US dollars per day for their services.

En la community itself, two simple but functional shelters have been built, each with five and six rooms respectively. The best organized also has one rooms with a private shower, a bit jerry-built but serviceable. A curious detail is that although it is in the midst of cattle, there is no milk in the community. As with many community-owned enterprises, it is advisable to take a small culinary kit with one, to add taste and sometimes consistency to the meals.

The Florida community is made of constructions, huts really, with high jatata palm roofs, and it is placidly located on the river banks, but on a branch that is really an overflow, so that it almost gives the sensation of being a lagoon. The women to down there to wash clothes, and the children go to play with their mothers; it is an ideal spot for bathing


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