Cashibo, Missionary base near Pucallpa, Peru

Cashibo is a missionary base in the Peruvian jungle near Pucallpa. The name covers two sites about 5 kilometers apart: the Swiss Mission, an Indicamino base set some 3 kilometers off the Carretera Federico Basadre, the road from Pucallpa to Lima, and the South American Mission base. The Swiss Mission staff are mostly Swiss and German, with several Peruvian workers.

Cashibo is a missionary base near Pucallpa, not an indigenous settlement. The Swiss Mission branch belongs to Indicamino, an Evangelical mission active in Peru, Bolivia and Colombia since the 1960s; the South American Mission base lies about 5 km away. The Swiss base sits roughly 3 km off the Carretera Federico Basadre, the road from Pucallpa to Lima.

Cashibo is not an indigenous settlement but the name shared by two missionary bases near Pucallpa, about 5 km apart. The Swiss Mission belongs to Indicamino, an Evangelical mission active in Peru, Bolivia and Colombia since the 1960s; its workers are mostly Swiss and German, with several Peruvians. At the base, native students learn carpentry, cattle breeding and mechanics alongside Bible teaching.

The Swiss Mission base of Indicamino sits about 3 km off the Carretera Federico Basadre, the road from Pucallpa to Lima; the South American Mission base lies roughly 5 km from it. The two bases are separate sites, so confirm which one you are heading to before setting out.

The two Cashibo bases lie about 5 km apart: the Swiss Mission (Indicamino) sits roughly 3 km off the Carretera Federico Basadre, the road from Pucallpa to Lima, while the South American Mission base is the other one. Visitors often assume a single site.