---
id: engines/comapeo-awana-digital
about:
  label: CoMapeo
  description: >-
    Open-source Android app from the non-profit Awana Digital for territory
    monitoring and mapping, co-designed with Indigenous communities; teams
    record observations on a map and share them peer to peer.
  tags:
    - mapping
    - indigenous
    - territory
    - monitoring
    - android
    - community
tool:
  form: open-source mobile app
  homepage: 'https://awana.digital/comapeo'
  cost: free
provenance:
  origin: agent
  sources:
    - title: CoMapeo
      url: 'https://awana.digital/comapeo'
    - title: Awana Digital • Co-developing Technology for Social Justice
      url: 'https://awana.digital/'
  created: '2026-10-17'
  reviewed: '2026-10-17'
  reviewed_by: 'Claude, from the sources listed'
  status: draft
import:
  source: openai-linkedin-scrape 2026-10-17
  id: DT077
  kind: enabling_mapping
  family: enabling_technology_and_adjacent_work
  priority: supporting
  verified: false
  posts:
    - P074
  posters:
    - Awana Digital
domains:
  - people
  - places
---
CoMapeo is a territory monitoring and mapping tool from Awana Digital, a San Francisco non-profit that builds decentralised technology with Indigenous partners. Awana says it was co-designed with the Achuar, Cocama, Harakbut, Kofan, Kichwa, Maasai, Malaita, Matsiguenka, Ogiek, Siekopai, Wayamu, Wayana, Waorani and Yine peoples, across the Amazon, East Africa, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Awana also makes Terrastories and the Earth Defenders Toolkit.

A team sets up a project, records observations against a shared set of categories (its own, or a curated set from the Earth Defenders Toolkit library) and exchanges data with other devices peer to peer, without a central server. Awana reports its tools in use by about 800 land defenders across 75 projects in 38 countries, and more than 7 million hectares mapped; these are its own figures.

It is free and open source, distributed for Android as an APK and through the Google Play Store. The pages read do not name the licence.

Status: in use; Awana invites feedback and publishes release notes. The only date on the product page is a 2024 copyright.