Casablanca, the Plaza Mayor of Tierra Mitica

Casablanca under construction

 Casablanca, our main social building is in its finishing stages. It is a building in the shape of an Andean Cross (not an Inka Cross), virtualy a circular building with a cross running through its center creating a big, 220 square meter circular main hall that will serve as the main dining room, living room and main ceremony room when it rains and until the main ceremonial maloca is built. 

View from the West

It is also a place for celebrations and fun and all types of events and workshops that require big spaces such as Yoga and others.  The legs of the cross protrude as 4 separate units, situated symbolically exactly North, South, East and West.

The main hall

 North will be our main kitchens, South bathrooms, showers and a Spa room for massages and other healings, East a small two room apartment with a kitchenette and a bathroom to house the family of our carpenter and our building and electrical expert (and visiting craftsmen) and finally West will house our office and a small bedroom with a bath.

 There are skylights to allow everything to be bathed in natural light and huge netted windows for spectacular views of Tierra Mitica. Art will be exhibited on the walls when finished and the East wall will serve as a huge screen for our projector so that we can watch movies together and also offer fun to the children of the workers of Tierra Mitica.

Skylights bring natural light everywhere

  Casablanca is situated above the dirt road that goes to Okopua, a few minutes from the waterfalls and the Eye, on a beautiful grassy hill. 

Casablanca view from the mountain

We will make gazebos and gardens around it, loungers and hammocks and it will play the role of the main "square" or Plaza Mayor of our community.
With its proximity to Okopua, our main accommodation it will create the social axis  Tierra Mitica, concentrating it on the North side of the river, allowing the majority of the land on the South side to be dedicated to the sacred, to our Shipibo shamans, to nature and isolation, to the unspoiled holiness of the land.
By now, it has progressed way more than in the pics. It will be fully operational by the opening of the season in April.