Half a Million Hectares, Formalized: What Colombia’s Amazon Land Titling Does, and What It Cannot Do Alone

by | Sep 11, 2026 | Colombia, Deforestation, Gold Mining & Garimpo, Indigenous Sovereignty, Investigation, Land & Territorial Rights, Oil and Gas Pressure

In late January 2026, Colombia’s National Land Agency (Agencia Nacional de Tierras, ANT) announced that it had formalized 521,492 hectares of the Colombian Amazon as Indigenous resguardos, across five departments: Amazonas, Putumayo, Caquetá, Guaviare and...
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