Energy from the sun
The energy the hotel uses comes from the sun. In the Ankua Experience you can learn about the farm's solar power system and sustainability techniques.
Caring for what cares for us
What we do
The practices Ankua runs on: where the energy and water come from, how it's built and how the forest is looked after.
Practices
An eco-hotel that works with its surroundings
Ankua is an eco-hotel on a working farm in Usiacurí. These are the practices it runs on today.
Solar panels
Dry forest
Water from our wells
The water used in the hotel comes from wells on the farm itself.
Treated waste
Waste is treated with microbacteria before being released into the environment.
Living materials
Certified plantation wood, iron nails and a bitter-palm roof: cabins built with low-impact materials.
Crops and planting
Organic crops and plantings on the farm, and guests who learn to plant their own tree.
Dry forest and community
Internal trails of more than 3 km in a tropical dry-forest ecosystem, and tours around Usiacurí with ASOGATUR, outside the hotel.
Negocios Verdes (Green Businesses). Ankua holds the Negocios Verdes mark. Below you'll find our sustainability policy and our code of conduct.
Come and see it
Learn on the farm
Ankua's sustainability isn't told, it's walked. These experiences, included with your stay, show you how the farm works.
- Discover our solar energy system and sustainability techniques
- Learn about our organic crops and plantings
- Learn to plant your own tree
- Trekking on internal trails with more than 3 km of routes inside the hotel
Recognition and reports
What backs us up
Negocios Verdes (Green Businesses)
Ankua holds the Negocios Verdes mark, the recognition for businesses with responsible environmental and social practices.
BIC reports
Management reports
See the BIC management reports published by Ankua.
Documents
Our commitments
Ankua's sustainability policy and code of conduct, as we publish them. This is a courtesy translation: the Spanish text is the official one and prevails.
Sustainability policy
ECO-HOTEL ANKUA USIACURI, aware of the impacts generated by the provision of our tourism services, is committed to carrying out activities for environmental conservation and the promotion of the region's cultural and economic heritage. In order to prevent and reduce negative impacts and maximize positive ones, we will promote the participation of customers and guests, inform our suppliers and train our staff so that they take part in the sustainability actions built into the hotel's services and meet our customers' needs, as well as choose suppliers according to sustainability criteria and offer our staff an adequate working environment, while complying with current regulations and rejecting any activity involving the commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents. Finally, we guarantee and ensure that the rights and duties of our suppliers, staff and customers are respected.
EDUARDO MANUEL PUELLO ACOSTA
Legal representative
Code of conduct
In order to counter the exploitation, pornography and sex tourism involving children and adolescents, ECO-HOTEL ANKUA USIACURI, in compliance with Article 1 of Law 679 of 2001, Law 1336 of 2009 and Resolution 3840 of 2009, undertakes to fulfill the following legal obligations:
We recognize that the sexual exploitation of children is a worldwide problem. To combat it, we are adopting the following measures:
All of our activities and operations actively reject any kind of sexual exploitation of children.
The employees of ECO-HOTEL ANKUA USIACURI are committed to preventing the entry of children and adolescents into the hotel or other lodging places, bars, similar businesses and other establishments where tourism services are provided, for purposes of sexual exploitation or abuse.
Obvious cases of commercial sex involving children are reported to the local Police and/or the competent authorities.
We raise awareness among our employees, using training and information as the best tools to emphasize that the sexual exploitation of minors is a crime.
The policy of ECO-HOTEL ANKUA USIACURI states that it is not permitted to search for and/or promote child pornography using the Internet. It is also prohibited to seek and/or promote contact with children and adolescents for sexual purposes through chat rooms, discussion groups, tourism promotion programs or similar, and the hotel undertakes to adopt measures aimed at preventing personnel linked to the company in any capacity from offering tourism services that allow sexual activity with children and adolescents.
ECO-HOTEL ANKUA USIACURI does not allow the arranging of vehicles on tourist routes for purposes of sexual exploitation or abuse of children and adolescents; and it supports all legal actions to prevent and punish these crimes, undertaking to report to the local police and/or the competent authorities any facts it becomes aware of by any means, as well as suspicions of them, related to the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents, and to ensure that channels exist within the company to report such facts to the competent authorities.
ECO-HOTEL ANKUA USIACURI asks its customers and all of its personnel to refrain from taking tourists, directly or through third parties, to establishments or places where the commercial sexual exploitation of children is practiced, as well as from taking children to the places where tourists are staying, even if these are places located on the high seas, for purposes of commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents.
ECO-HOTEL ANKUA USIACURI adopts as a measure the training of all linked personnel on the prevention of the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents.
ECO-HOTEL ANKUA USIACURI refrains from giving tourists, directly or through an intermediary, information about places from which the commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents is coordinated or practiced. It likewise refrains from taking them to places where this activity is practiced.
ECO-HOTEL ANKUA USIACURI does not allow the illegal trafficking of flora and fauna.
At ECO-HOTEL ANKUA USIACURI we promote responsible behavior toward the environment and cultural heritage, avoiding the sale or consumption of species or products derived from flora and fauna and the illicit trafficking of cultural property prohibited by law, and avoiding carrying out or supporting activities aimed at the collection, sale and trafficking of animal or plant species that do not have the respective permits and licenses.
EDUARDO MANUEL PUELLO ACOSTA
Legal representative
