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The spatial arrangement in traditional communities comprises two options... the comunal house, or churuata divided into departments that lodge the extended families; or the individual houses, of rectangular plant, which maintain the circular disposition of the town.
The extended families (that incorporate members of three generations, among them the husbands of the married daughters), form in the economic plane a unit of production and consumption; in the political aspect they constitute a fraction that in the Circle of Elders is represented by the head of the family. A politically mature Ye'kwana town has from two to four of these units or extended families .
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