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| 🪨 Granite Manifesto | 🗺️ Territory & Architecture |
| Our foundational document: design principles, community guidelines, and the philosophy behind building technology that serves conservation. | Three-layer architecture: Field Capture → Intelligence → Management. Offline-first, low-energy, modular, replicable. |
| 🌿 Open Problems | 🤝 How to Contribute |
| Real territorial challenges waiting for solutions: climber safety systems, fire detection, species monitoring, carbon quantification. | Developers, GIS specialists, conservation scientists, and designers — find your entry point. |
Cochamó Hippie Hub is an open-source technical NGO platform born in Chilean Patagonia. We design modular, offline-first, low-energy technology for territorial conservation — piloted from the Cochamó municipality, home to one of Latin America's most significant conservation milestones.
We are the technical layer behind Corporación Puelo Patagonia — a nonprofit with 12+ years defending Cochamó's heritage that in December 2025 completed the historic purchase of 133,000 hectares of pristine Patagonian wilderness.
"Conservation can be an opportunity to preserve traditional activities and generate sustainable development opportunities, with impact at both local and global levels."
| 🏔️ 133,000 ha | 🌲 58,819 ha | 🦌 40+ species | 💧 507 ha | 🌍 USD $78M |
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| Protected territory | Primary forest | Identified by monitoring | Glaciers | Successfully raised |
Our work is documented through extraordinary films. These tell the story of Cochamó's conservation journey — from community resistance to global fundraising victory.
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| 🎬 Conserva Pucheguín, protege Cochamó | 🎬 Cochamó por Siempre — Patagonia Films, 2026 |
| The territory, the people, the mission | Narrated by Sean Villanueva, ft. Tommy Caldwell |
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| Histórico: 133K ha protegidas | Supera el 80% de la meta | Registro inédito de huemules |
| Dic 2025 | Oct 2025 | Ago 2025 |
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| Tour Cochamó por Siempre | Incendio en Cochamó | 3 especies en peligro |
| May 2025 | Feb 2025 | May 2024 |
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| ¡Hay que reservar! | Ladera Sur Fest 2024 | Historia de batallas y victorias |
| Dic 2024 | Nov 2024 | Abr 2024 |
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| Stone Locals: Cochamó | Climbing Cerro Trinidad | Voluntariado Rural |
| Patagonia Films | World-class big wall granite | Supporting mountain families |
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| Santuario de la Naturaleza | Wildlife Monitoring | Cultura Arriera & Fauna |
| 11,400 ha protected, 2023 | Camera traps & huemul tracking | UNESCO Living Treasures |
"This is an irreplaceable place." — Jeff Parrish, TNC
| Publication | Coverage | Link |
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| 🇬🇧 The Guardian | 133,000 hectares preserved — conservation success |  |
| 🇺🇸 The Nature Conservancy | Historic purchase — coalition press release | |
| 🇺🇸 Patagonia Works | Coalition launch & historic purchase | |
| 🇺🇸 Patagonia Stories | Cochamó por Siempre — in-depth feature | |
| 🇨🇱 Patagon Journal | Protection with local and global impact (Issue 29) | |
| 🇨🇱 Patagon Journal | Cochamó Calling — Brady Robinson (Issue 28) | |
| 🇨🇦 Gripped Magazine | Historic deal protects Cochamó | |
| 🇮🇹 Planet Mountain | Fundraising surpasses 50% of goal | |
| 🇬🇧 Outdoors Magic | Cochamó Por Siempre film review | |
| 🇺🇸 The Cool Down | Locals save 'Yosemite of South America' | |
| 🇨🇱 Chilenieve | Film celebra victoria de conservación | |
| 🇨🇱 Ladera Sur | Puelo Patagonia NGO profile | |
| 🇨🇱 Revista Endémico | Cochamó por Siempre — victoria | |
| 🇺🇸 Freyja Foundation | Cochamó Valley — 20-year journey | |
| 🇺🇸 Patagonia Action Works | Partner organization profile | |
| Document | Source | Access |
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| 📋 Conserva Pucheguín — FAQ (Complete project details) | conservapucheguin.org |  |
| 📋 Conserva Pucheguín — Why (Ecological & cultural significance) | conservapucheguin.org | |
| 📋 Conserva Pucheguín — About (Coalition & objectives) | conservapucheguin.org | |
| 📋 History of Conservation Battles (1924–Present) | conservapucheguin.org | |
| 📋 Historic Purchase Announcement (Dec 2025) | conservapucheguin.org | |
| 📋 Puelo Patagonia — About Us (Team & history) | puelopatagonia.cl | |
| 📋 All News (Spanish/English) | puelopatagonia.cl | |
| 📋 Conserva Pucheguín Fund (Donations) | Marin Community Foundation | |
| 📋 Cochamó Visitor Information | Patagon Journal | |
| 📋 Ruta de los Parques — Puelo | Ruta de los Parques | |
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Territorial information management. Meeting records, community engagement, stakeholder mapping, institutional memory.
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Granite
data/is an open knowledge repository for protected area management. 12 thematic domains — from science and climbing routes to legal frameworks and community heritage — each with collaboration guides, format standards, and open access. Designed to be forked by any protected area on Earth.
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│ 📡 FIELD CAPTURE │ 🧠 INTELLIGENCE │ 📊 MANAGEMENT │
│ Ecological │ AI species ID │ Territorial dashboard │
│ sensors │ Fire detection │ Public-use reservations │
│ Satellite │ Vegetation │ Climber check-in/out │
│ monitoring │ change detect │ Community coordination │
│ LoRa/Starlink │ Visitor flow │ Institutional memory │
│ connectivity │ Carbon quant. │ (GitHub-as-archive) │
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Design principles: Offline-first · Low energy · Modular · Replicable · Open data · Community-centered
The Conserva Pucheguín initiative brought together a remarkable alliance:
We're looking for collaborators in: satellite remote sensing, ecological AI, LoRa/mesh networking, community-driven GIS, and climber safety systems.
"Had it been developed, it would have bifurcated a bunch of protected areas. This is the missing puzzle piece."
— Jeff Parrish, TNC Global Managing Director
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