Tekoha is the word that the Guarani use to refer to their traditional land. However, more than a simple place for a group or a place where they withdraw their subsistence, it is in this land that every Guarani culture is created.
According to the principal dictionaries, the word Teko means: way of being, system, law, culture, norm, behaviour, habit. Like this, it is in Tekoha that the Guarani realize their way of being.
A Tekoha is formed by an extensive family that is a social-political being, economical and territorial autonomous, and the basic structure of the society Guarani. Each person is part of an extensive family and identifies with it.
The extensive family is a group of people related to each other by blood relationship, including: grandparents, fathers, mothers, uncles, aunts, husbands, wives, brother-in-laws, sister-in-laws, sons, daughters, nephews and nieces.
"It is recognized that the indigenous peoples have the right to their social organization, customs, languages, beliefs and traditions, and their original rights over the lands that they have traditionally occupied, being the duty of the federal government to demarcate these lands, protect them and ensure that all their properties and assets are respected."
Federal Constitution, Article 231.
