Nugekʉ = « donde permanece »
Our hotel is the result of the transformation of an existing house. It was first built as a family home and saw a family grow for about twenty years before becoming the Rincón del Mar police substation. The idea was not to completely distort the place and to be able to preserve its history by making some light reminders.
It is called “Nugeku” which in the Arhuaca or iku language means “what lasts and remains”. The name was not chosen at random since our hotel aims to be sustainable in several aspects such as:
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+ THE maximum use of organic, local and sustainable materials.
+ The use of ancestral techniques as a way of protecting Mother Earth while maintaining a certain comfort. For this we have the collaboration of two architect friends and their company Prototopia, who are passionate and specialized in bioconstruction.
+ The desire to work with the personnel of the region to achieve all our achievements.
+ The desire to highlight the talent of these local artists by exhibiting a good part of their work in our hostel.
+ The systematic desire to work as much as possible in the recovery of each material previously existing in the house but also of the waste materials used during new constructions, “everything is transformed.”
+ Continuing education showing the different ancestral boat-type construction techniques for building walls, for example.
+ Working together with the Corporimar recycling station in the town of Rincon del Mar.
+ The desire to highlight and redefine local crafts by exhibiting artists’ products and investing with a Zenú family to manufacture cane arrow crafts to support generating fair trade.
+ The desire to give value to local culture by organizing concerts of traditional music, singing and dance.
+ The desire to share some of the ancestral knowledge acquired through the Mamorwa Reserve project of an Arhuaca community in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. which we have been accompanying for more than 10 years. Our hostel was baptized and named from the Arhuaco tradition by our Mamo and Friend Duavico Chaparro.
The palm roofs traditionally used are above all a natural construction that does not cause debris and whose materials do not pollute. It is a 100% biodegradable material and resistant to climatic agents. It comes from an oral tradition, from ancestral knowledge that is transmitted from generation to generation.
The bahareque technique was one of the first anti-seismic construction technologies in Colombia. One of the characteristics of the earth walls is the pleasant microclimate that is preserved inside their buildings. It is called “bioarchitecture” because it reduces carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. Its construction system is based on the combination of wood and earth. For the hostel we use a type of bamboo from the region called cane brava for the basic structure that is filled and then covered with mud. Today, bahareque is one of the traditional techniques implemented to reduce the housing deficit in Latin America. Its practicality makes it a collaborative construction, integrating communities into the construction process.
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If you like to share (or not) in a peaceful place surrounded by nature, don’t hesitate and come to visit us.