The Ese Ejja are an indigenous people of Bolivia and Peru, in the southwestern Amazon basin.
1,687 Ese Ejja live in Bolivia, in the Pando and Beni Departments,[2] in the foothills along the Beni and the Madre de Dios Rivers.
In Peru, they live along the Tambopata and Heath Rivers, near Puerto Maldonado.
[1] Their name derives from their autonym, Ece'je, which means "people.
[1] Ese Ejja people are traditionally hunter-gatherers, farmers, rangers, and fishermen.