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The heron of Calanoa, Amazonas

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Mural by the Colombian artist Diego Samper and his wife Marlene.

At the heart of the Colombian Amazon, photographer Louis Vest captured this striking image of a girl from the Tikuna indigenous tribe looking from the entrance of her home in the riverine community of Calanoa, and in the gaze of a heron painted by the Colombian author and ethnographer Diego Samper and his wife Marlene.

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