Mundo Alto

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About the Community

  • Forming
  • Rural

What we do

A community life project

Mundo Alto aims to create a community life through the creation of an EcoVillage. This means a group of people/families living on the same land and sharing values and efforts.

Above all, collective life seeks to share human values such as solidarity, construction and exchange of knowledge, mutual support, tolerance. In this way, it aims to deconstruct capitalist and individualist life models, promoting sharing and co-construction, creating something together with others, the result of authentic teamwork where everyone has space to contribute their ideas — a creative, social, and active process.

The project is the dream of a simple life, connected to nature. Return to the roots, cultivate and eat from the land, drink water from the river and work with meaning and respect. Respect for oneself, one’s rhythm, one’s deep needs and respect for nature, treating it with love in an exchange of positive energies.
I’m Laurène, French by roots and Latin in my heart for 15 years. I fell in love with this land and since 2024 I fulfilled the dream and took the challenge of being the guardian of this place in the Sierra Nevada. We are located above Minca, in the heights at 1400 meters (near the “Escudo”). The land has 27 hectares and has 2 streams, several waterfalls and wells, paddocks and forest. There is an organic vegetable garden, coffee plantation, bananas and fruit trees. Animals are on site: mule, dogs, cat and chickens.

The project simply aims to live better and more meaningful. To this end, it is a matter of detaching oneself from dependence on the economic system by aiming at greater food, material and energy autonomy. And as we know, together we go further! So also the project aims to build a human community, where effort and values come together to achieve those goals.

Each family unit has its own home in defined areas of the land, but participates in community life by contributing their effort in tasks and shared expenses. For example, in maintaining a common house where tools and shared appliances are located (kitchen, refrigerators, construction and gardening tools, etc.); as well as in participating in growing vegetables, raising animals, etc. This way of life also allows sharing common expenses such as internet, taxes, materials to fence the property, … and joining efforts in labor for cleaning and repairing common paths, property boundaries, fences, etc.

As a legal entity, Mundo Alto SAS is the owner of the land, in order to allow for the economic and effective participation of incoming members in the community. After a one-year integration process, governed by community rules and agreements, each person/family will have the possibility to integrate financially into the project by purchasing shares and becoming co-owners of the land, as well as active members with decision-making power in the community.

Our Vision

Ecological focus: return to the roots, simple living close to nature, respect for the Earth, moving toward food autonomy, energy self-sufficiency, environmental preservation and education.

Human focus: independent solidarity. Sharing a space in the heart of nature and taking care of it together. Mutual support, kindness, empathy. Each household is free and independent, yet connected to the community through the management of collective resources (vegetable garden, animals, tools, common spaces, etc.).

Our Mission

Ecological focus: return to the roots, simple living close to nature, respect for the Earth, moving toward food autonomy, energy self-sufficiency, environmental preservation and education.

Human focus: independent solidarity. Sharing a space in the heart of nature and taking care of it together. Mutual support, kindness, empathy. Each household is free and independent, yet connected to the community through the management of collective resources (vegetable garden, animals, tools, common spaces, etc.).

  • Community type
  • Ecovillage
  • Activities
  • Services Business
  • Others
  • 6 Total members
  • Open to new members
  • Open to visitors
  • Open to volunteers
Total
6

How to join

As a legal entity, Mundo Alto SAS (compagny) is the owner of the land, in order to allow for the economic and effective participation of incoming members in the community. After a one-year integration process, governed by community rules and agreements, each person/family will have the possibility to integrate financially into the project by purchasing shares and becoming co-owners of the land, as well as active members with decision-making power in the community.

Basic expectations or agreements for members

He can simply contact us through this means, to schedule a phone call and organize a physical visit

Primary decision-making authority

  • Single Leader or Founding Couple

One person or partnership has ultimate authority.

Governance structure

  • Collaborative/Horizontal

Power and responsibility are shared relatively equally among members.

Economic model

  • Independent Finances

Members maintain separate personal finances with minimal sharing.

Economic scenarios for this community

  • There is a one-time fee, investment, or share purchase to join the community separate from accessing housing
  • Members need to pay fees, dues, or similar to live there on a per month or per year basis
  • There is a labor obligation
  • Members typically need to have their own job or other personal source of income to cover their expenses while living in the community?

Additional economic information

Join fee: $41000
Monthly fees/dues: $80
Labor required: 2 hours/week
Members with pre-existing debt: Yes (some debt)
Shared costs correspond to the collective costs of living in Mundo Alto: taxes, shared car, gas, internet, food for shared animals, maintenance of the shared house, etc.

Shared resources and amenities that are accessible to everyone in the community

Common House, Garden(s), Vehicle Share, Outbuilding(s), Tractor & Farm Equipment, Swingsets & play areas, Waterfront access, Internet, watterfalls, sacred places

Frequency of communal meals

  • 2-5 times per week

Substance use culture

  • Substance use occurs primarily at celebrations or ceremonies

Property status

  • Privately owned

Property owner

  • By a Land Trust, Home Owners Association, or corporation

Setting

  • Rural

Countryside locations with significant distance from urban centers.

Self-produced energy

  • Over 66%

Energy sources used

  • Photovoltaic Solar
  • Hydro

Self-produced food

  • Up to 33%
  • Land area size
    27 hectares

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Location

  • Magdalena, Colombia

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