The men predominantly go hunting, fishing, and gather non-timber forest products for their families on a seasonal basis.

As such Wowetta is a member of the North Rupununi District Development Board that is bisected by the Georgetown to Lethem highway.

The men are skilled craftsmen who produce crafts that the women use to process the various by-product of the cassava.

These earn a small percentage of income generated from revenues paid for the use of resources, such as non-timber forest products and timber.

These projects employ about 10% of the residents and the remainder go out into the gold mines, and often seasonally migrate to Brazil.

Wowetta is located in the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo Region 9, approximately 450 km South of the capital city, Georgetown.

The Village Council of Wowetta ensures that the people are adequately represented based on issues affecting individuals.

The village Council is mandated to manage natural resources on communal land and to develop rules and regulations that control the use by outsiders.

The village council consists of seven Councillors, headed by a Toshao (Chief), and has a three term in office before they are replaced or re-elected.

Almost all were all wiped out by a terrible sickness – fever, vomiting and diarrhoea – which led to the severe dehydration and death in the early 1960s.

From that time the place was named Aweta, since the sickness made the people's flesh ‘get soft’, putrid.

They traded parrots, beads and earthen pots with the Arekuna who came from far off Roraima, receiving in exchange files, cutlasses and cloth.

The women's group of Wowetta has started to process cassava into large quantities that is supplied to the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs as part of its relief program to help the problem of flood affected villages.