Since we are a small operation our staff is a carefully selected multinational group of people. We hire guides from Brazil, Perú and Colombia to cover a larger and more diverse region in our trips. Javier, our main instructor has friends in many places and is a well known explorer of the Middle Amazonian Basin. He is Colombian of Peruvian Descent. Our regional offices are in Tabatinga, Brazil. Our team is well educated with diverse professions such as Marine Biology, Architecture and Anthropology.

If you have any questions about any of the people in our team, please do not hesitate to contact us info@zero-latitude.com
Javier Espírit. Javier is the main man. He designed the courses and he is the principal guide of this operation. He is 34 years old and a Native of Puertio Nariño, Colombia, He has plenty of experience in the jungle, speaks Spanish, and several local indigenous dialects that allow him to contact the right people, ask the exact questions and make the proper friends, every where we go, no matter wich national territory we are in at the time. He is an expert traditional hunter and fisherman. Javier also owns a reputable eco-tourism agency in Tabatinga, Brazil which provides all the infrastructure and logistics to our courses. He has a serene and charming personality that will leave you with the sensation that EVERYTHING can be achieved no matter how difficult. He's last name says it all: (Espíritu = Spirit).
Juan Camilo Jaramillo. Juan Camilo is Marine Biologist from the University of Miami that took an interest in the Amazon after a traveling through the region almost 10 years ago. He fell in love with the Amazonian Rain Forest like most people do after the first visit, He is our principal translator (he speaks English and Spanish perfectly) and foreign coordinator. Juan is also and adventure racer... hes has helped organize several adventure races, including one in the Amacayacu National Park, Colombia, in 2002. In 1999 he was also part of the Discovery Channel® Eco Challenge in Argentina (field logistics). He has travelled to almost 40 countries over the past 20 years and has a masters degree in Marine Affairs and Policy.
Felipe Ulloa. Felipe is an expert building tree houses, 'blinds' for fauna observation and 'aerial' canopy walk ways. He lives in Tabatinga Brazil where he also owns a lovely hotel near the slow-flowing waters of the Amazon river. He lives in the Amazon since 1990 and has developed several projects concerning important protected areas. He is well versed in many biological areas besides being an excellent administrator. He speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Goran Mihajlovic. Goran is from Germany but lives in the amazon since 1998. He lived by himself for 2 years in the beautiful Tarapoto Lakes (near Puerto Nariño, Colombia), learning traditional fishing techniques from the indigenous people (you won't belive the grilled fish this guy prepares!). He is well travelled (Africa, Europe, South America). He owns an elementary jungle school and with his wife they teach small children. Goran is a jungle guide and tree climber of reputation in Tabatinga.
Zenom Yepes. Zenom is a Yagua indian from San Jose de Loretoyacu (Perú). He is a guide specilized in orientation in the jungle and hunting by means of atracting animals imitating their sounds. He is also an acomplished fisherman and an expert cooking delicacies of the Amazon. We never leave without this guy. He also has a reputation for knowing many trees used traditionally by the Yaguas.
Gabriel Muyairi. Gabriel is a native of the region from the ethnic group called 'Yaguas'. He is 52 years old and an expert identifyin animals in the jungle by smell (YES, by smell!). He is also an acomplished jungle navigator and a trapper of reputation around Tabatinga.
Ignacio Razma. Ignacio is 56 year old 'Cocama-Ticuna' indian. He is an expert in hunting techniques and jungle orientation. He builds canoes and rafts from tree trunks, and you have to see him imitating animals.... it is unbelivable what he can do to lure fauna to us. He lives near a remote Amazon afluent called Loreto Yacu.
Luis Gabriel Teyete Silva. Luis is a 'Bora' indian who knows his way around medicinal plants like no other guide. He is also an acomplished power boat driver and an expert tree climber. He knows the region very well.
Vinam Vicu Matiz. Vinam is a 'Matiz' indian from Brazil. He is an expert making fire with nothing but small wooden sticks. He is also an expert making weapons fot hunting such as spears and knifes, and his most unusual skill is the extraction of salt from certain plants.
Regina Rabelo. Our Brazilian tourism expert is young and vivacious. He graduated in Tourism at the university in Brazil and specialized in Eco-Tourism and Sustainable Turism in the Amazon.
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Facts: The source of the Amazon is the lake, Lauricocha, in the Peruvian Andes. The river is still known as the Marañon in its upper course, in the Andes. The length of the Amazon is measured from the source of the Ucayali river, which joins with the Marañon to eventually form the Amazon (cited from www.natzoo.si.edu/Animals/Amazonia/Facts/basinfacts.cfm) ©Smithsonian)