Don Lucho (Luis Culquiton) talks about his Ayahuasca center; Kapitari.

The Kapitari Center was founded by the shaman Don Lucho (Luis Culquiton) in 1980 with the objective of helping to protect the incredible biodiversity of the Peruvian Amazon.

Don Lucho (Luis Culquitón) is a fairly unique shaman in Iquitos for a few reasons. Firstly, he never underwent a formal apprenticeship under another shaman. Don Lucho has been communicating with the spirits of his ancestors (of the Cocama tribe) since he was a young child and he has received all his knowledge and training directly from the spirits and the plants he has dieted. He was just 12 years old when he undertook his first plant diet.