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Areyto Boriken

Where archeology meets art in an ethnobotanical adventure!

Sat & Sun, January 24-25, 2026

Las Vegas, Montoso, Puerto Rico

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About

Areyto Boriken, presented by Ethnobotanical Adventures PR, is the first event in our annual series. We warmly invite you to explore the cultural and ethnobotanical heritage of the Taíno people of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, focusing on the sacred cohoba plant and its use.

Our intimate journey begins Sat, Jan 24, 2026 with a lecture and walk at the Tibes Taíno Museum in Ponce, Puerto Rico and continues with specilaized workshops and presentations at Campamento Behiques in Maricao, Puerto Rico. On Sun, Jan 25, there are options that include a guided tour to the Batey-Delfin Del-Yaguez Archeological Park and a visit to Caguana Ceremonial Park or staying at Campamento Behiques to relax and enjoy the waterfalls.

This event is also a celebration of life of Monti Moore, 

the late wife of Mark Henson.

 

Event Schedule

Day 1

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Check in San Juan, PR (Location TBD)

9:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Departure to Tibes Museum

9:00-10:00 Drive to Tibes Museum.
10am-11:30am Visit Tibes Museum

Includes a walkabout in the ceremonial ballpark with a lecture by Dr. Constantino Manuel Torres.

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11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Depart to Campamento Behiques

12:45 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch

Local meal included. Cooking accommodations available for particular diets. Inquire for details.

1:30 PM - 1:45 PM

Introduction to Mushroom Foray with Kurt Miller

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

Mushroom Forage with Mycologist Kurt Miller

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Botanical Illustration Class with Donna Torres

5:15 PM - 6:00 PM

Arts as a Portal of Consciousness with Mark Henson

VIsionary Art as a Birdge Between Spirit, Ecology and Humanity

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Dinner

7:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Closing Discussion Q&A

8:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Bonfire and Cacao

Memorial for Monti Moore

9:30 PM - 11:00 PM

DJ and Electronic Music by Silvermouse

Day 2

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Breakfast on Sunday

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Leave Camp to Batey-Delfin Del-Yaguez Archeological Park

Walkabout and lecture by Daniel Silva Pagan.

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11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Drive to Caguana Museum

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Caguana Museum

Walkabout

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2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Return to Campamento Behiques

Locations

Tibes Museum

PR-503 km 2.2, Ponce, 00733, Puerto Rico

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Campamento Behiques

Carretera 105

Las Vegas, Montoso, Puerto Rico

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Batey-Delfin Del-Yaguez Archeological Park

PR-106 k.m. 6.6, Quemado, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico

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Caguana Museum

Carr.111 Km. 48.6, Bo Utuado, 00641, Puerto Rico

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Cost & Accomodations

Pricing*

Cost – $350

Scholarships Available:
To be considered for a scholarship to attend the event please provide a letter explaining why you would like to attend the event and email it to us.

*No refunds


Lodging

Limited tent camping and bunkbed lodging offered.

We will provide information for local accomodations including Hipcamp, Air BnB, haciendas and hotels


Meals

Meals included:

Saturday: Lunch & Dinner;

Sunday: Breakfast.

Cooking options available.


Transportation

Some available options for traveling to the event locations:

  • Carpooling
  • Uber
  • Car Rental
    • If there is enough interest we can split a payment on a van rental for a group of people, see contact info below to express interest

Voices of the Forum

Dr. Constantino Manuel Torres

Pre-Columbian Art Historian

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Donna Torres

Botanical Illusatrator

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Daniel Silva Pagan

Archaeologist and Artist

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Mark Henson

Visionary Artist

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Kurt Miller

Citizen Scientist of Tropical Mycobiology

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Silvermouse

Artist

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Dr. Constantino Manuel Torres​

Dr. Constantino Manuel Torres has conducted research on ancient cultures of the South Central Andes since 1982. His work has concentrated on the San Pedro de Atacama oasis, where hundreds of well-preserved archaeological burial sites facilitate a comprehensive understanding of this desert people. Torres is also involved in the study of the art of Tiwanaku, the most important pre-Inca Central Andean civilization. On two occasions, he has been an invited presenter to the Dumbarton Oaks Round Table, in Washington, DC. Torres organized several symposia on the art and archaeology of the Andes for the International Congress of Americanists and for the Society for American Archaeology. He has been the recipient of four Fulbright awards.

His books include Anadenanthera: Visionary Plant of Ancient South America (2006), a wide-ranging and detailed study of this important visionary plant. Dr. Torres is Professor Emeritus of art history at Florida International University, Miami. He curated the exhibition Shamanism: Visions Outside of Time at the Museo Chileno de Arte Precolombino.

Dr. Torres has collaborated with Terrence McKenna, Johnathan Ott, Alexander and Ann Shulgin amongst many others.

Donna Torres

Miami-based artist, botanical illustrator, and textile designer known for work that explores the relationship between people, plants, and culture, with a particular focus on medicinal and shamanic plants. She recently retired from teaching at Florida International University (FIU) and the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden.

Torres’s primary media are painting and drawing, though her work also extends to multimedia projects and textile design. Her art often incorporates traditional botanical illustration techniques, which she taught for many years at the Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden.

Teaching: She served as an adjunct professor of painting at Florida International University from 2000 to 2023 and taught botanical art at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden for nearly 20 years.

Exhibitions: Her artworks have been exhibited widely in the U.S. and internationally, including solo exhibitions like Caminos y Enlaces in Santiago, Chile, and The Radiance of Proximity at the Miami International Airport.

Publications: Her botanical illustrations have been published in numerous books, including volumes of The Nature of Drugs by Alexander Shulgin and The Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs.

Research: Torres is a research affiliate and was an Artist in Residence at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University in late 2025.

Daniel Silva Pagan

An associated Archeologist for Batey Delfiˆn in Mayaguez. He is responsible for the excavation, restoration and reforestation of the site and has participated in many other excavations on the island. He is an artist of Indigenous arts and crafts, specializing in prehistoric ceramics, furniture, and weaving. Some of his pieces are housed at the Smithsonian Museum in New York.

Mark Henson

California native, Mark Henson has been a full-time artist all his life. A graduate of the University of California, Davis, 1973, Mark is an oil painter who also works digitally and proficiently in wood and metal. Exhibited internationally and throughout the internet, Mark has also partnered in cooperative galleries. For years, Mark curated the Art Village at California Health & Harmony Festival and was one of the first artists to “live paint” at gatherings and music festivals. Mark still occasionally paints publicly and gives lectures and workshops worldwide. Mark presently makes his home in rural Northern California. My art is idea-driven, expressing a theme or philosophy. The paintings could be called allegorical art in the sense that I am telling a story with the image. Besides providing visual stimulation, my intention is to evoke powerful thoughts woven with sensitive emotions. We live in challenging times. I touch upon themes of spirituality, ecology, politics, and our erotic inclinations, both powerful and empathetic. Art should never flinch from showing us all aspects of reality and always be true to itself.

Kurt Miller

Kurt Miller is a community scientist from Kirkland, Washington. He lives in Puerto Rico where he has interned with Forest Service mycologist Dr. Jean Lodge and served as a field biologist during the 11th annual International Mycology Congress in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His main interests are tropical fungal ecology and taxonomy, environmental education, and documenting rare mushroom species, especially those which form mycorrhizae with sea grape (Coccoloba spp), a native tree. He administers the local group ‘Fungi of Puerto Rico’ and leads several fungal identification walks annually on the island. He is a FunDiS Biodiversity Database Identifier specializing in fungi of the Caribbean Islands.

Silvermouse

Silvermouse weave a live psychoactive universe with electronica, multi-instrumentals, and brainwave entrainment audio signals. The duo’s sound is rooted in spiraling improvisational live performances that are psychedelically genre- defying, and both provoke and support altered states of consciousness.