Santa Barbara de Iscuandé relies only on aquatic mobility for all transportation activities and the economy is based almost entirely on fishing and mangrove resource recollection. Given these scenarios, electric mobility rises as an alternative capable of enhancing people’s quality of life at the same time it helps sustainably preserve ancestral practices.

Four boats in Santa Bárbara de Iscuandé in Nariño are powered by batteries. Thanks to this, 25 women who hunt piangua do not waste fuel and do not row extensively. Behind it is a decade of effort at the hands of a German.