At the edge of Colombia and Panama, where the Darién Gap begins and the jungle thickens into silence, Guna Dule women move through daily life carrying memory, ritual, and survival. In Unguía, Chocó—a borderland long marked by violence and displacement—their traditions endure despite decades of armed conflict that once pushed their people to the brink of disappearance.

Guerrilla warfare, paramilitary massacres, forced recruitment, drug routes, and poisoned skies reshaped the land around them, but not their identity. These images bear witness to women who preserve culture through ritual and routine, holding continuity in a territory where history has tried repeatedly to erase it.