Amazonian indigenous peoples in Peru are not well known. The prejudiced approach of Peruvian society prevents a thorough comprehension of these societies and denies their contributions to different domains of knowledge and their adaptation strategies to the amazon environment. This evidently has historical reasons. This investigation contributes to a better understanding of these societies, their conceptions regarding territory and their governance systems, and above all, to the explanation of the historical processes they have endured until they became native communities. Our specific goals are to explain their conceptions and traditional practices regarding territory and governance, the analysis of the historical transformations experimented by indigenous societies and the examination of new territorial and governance proposals. We have used a descriptive non-experimental methodology t...