The Venezuelan Amazon is a place that has not achieved a good capillarity among geography professionals in Venezuela. This region has been characterized (in books) as an inhospitable and unfathomable region. This text intends to demonstrate that geographic knowledge is developed in different cultures and societies in which their own knowledge converges and is key to territorial governance and management of the territory. It narrates a personal life story that clarifies, questions, and amalgamates knowledge learned in the academy and local experiences with the indigenous peoples of the Venezuelan Amazon. Finally, it concludes that experiences enrich knowledge and are the basis for understanding the territories where diverse voices, nuances and daily elements that shape the local geographic space and life in the Amazon converge.

This article addresses the exchange of knowledge between university student researchers and students in basic education, particularly between the 7th and 9th grades, in riverside communities in the Paraense Amazon, within the scope of the "Entre Marés" project. This initiative, developed in communities in the municipalities of Maracanã and Magalhães Barata, Pará/Brazil, emerges from a joint effort by students from the Landscape and Environmental Planning Study Group (GEPPAM) at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA). The main objective is to promote environmental awareness towards the appreciation and preservation of natural and cultural heritage in these riverside locations, through an active and participatory interaction between scientific knowledge and local wisdom. The methodological plan focused on the integration of all participating actors. The implementation of a participator...