1.1 Chile, Lakes Region, and the Chiloé Archipelago. Provided by Tamara Salinas-Cohn based on (A) www.curriculumnacional.cl; (B) www.gobernacionchiloe.gov.cl/geografia
1.2 Usual routes from Castro to Quehui Island. Provided by Tamara Salinas-Cohn based on Google Earth
2.1 Oil blocks 31 and 43 (ITT) along the Napo River and inside the Yasuní National Park. Source: Bass et al. (2010). CC BY 4.0
2.2 The water plant in Samona. Source: González Toro (2017, p. 136). Photo: Patricia González Toro
3.1 The Peruvian flag was raised emphasising the link between issue of water access and citizenship. Photo by the author
6.1 Map of Mexico, including two case studies. Wikimedia Commons, designed by Alexis Rojas. Areas indicated on the map added by the authors. CC BY-SA 3.0
7.1 Location of La Pincoya and El Castillo in Santiago, including spatial distribution of socio-economic groups in 1992, 2002, and 2012, according to census data. Source: Cociña (2017)
7.2 ‘Red zones’. Map elaborated by the Municipality of Renca (Santiago) from users’ testimonies. Source: author
7.3 Houses with installed antennas that are used to get broadband connections from local providers in El Castillo, district of La Pintana. Photo by the author
8.1 The Cuenca tramway in 2020. Photo taken by the author
8.2 Shops along the paralysed tram construction in 2017. Photo taken by the author
9.1 Tello and Miranda’s 1923 article on the Casta champería featured a drawing of a khipu board they observed being used (Tello and Miranda, 1923, p. 534). Redrawn by Eleanor Hyland. Copyright Sabine Hyland
9.2 An alguacil (junior-ranking functionary) reads out passages of The Entablo in 2018. Image: Sarah Bennison
9.3 During the champería in Casta, one of the Michco functionaries whips the water ‘so that it does not delay on its way to the village’. Image and caption: Luis Miguel Silva-Novoa Sánchez
9.4 The annual huayrona settling of accounts in Casta at the sacred site Cuhuay, presided over by the elders and Yachaq ritual expert (seated). The authorities stand between the elders (to their left) and the padrón accounts (to their right). Image: Sarah Bennison
9.5 The secretario updates the padrón comunal beneath the gaze of the elders, located opposite on a raised platform. In 2018, an elderly collaborator explained that in her youth, the khipu board padrones were displayed here. Image: Sarah Bennison