Organization and Management of Communes, which intended to protect and ensure the existence and functioning of rural peasant communities and administratively place them under the protection and supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock. The creation of a comuna in an area included "every town that does not have the status of parish and was known as annexed, neighborhood, community, bear the name of community."
However, this Act was based on the idea that all rural communities are peasant communities, but it did not acknowledge or recognize the cultural and historical diversity of towns and ancestral communities.
Subsequent reforms have not changed this view; therefore, at present time most of its provisions have fallen into conflict with constitutional law and international norms that protect indigenous communities.
The Salango commune, aware of its historical and ancestral roots, in the exercise of its collective rights guaranteed in the Ecuadorian constitution and in the provisions of Convention 169 of the International Labour Organization ILO, in a free and autonomous way, took the decision to separate the regime of the Communal rights and its former legal status; consequently the new status of the Community Salango was recorded under Agreement No. 016 on April 19 of 2004 in the Consejo de Desarrollo de las Nacionalidades y Pueblos del Ecuador CODENPE, an agency under the Presidency of the Republic, authorized in Executive Order No. 386 RO 86 on December 11 of 1998, that is responsible for defining policies for the reconstruction, strengthening and development of the indigenous towns and communities in the country.
For the management of their territory, natural resources, biodiversity, cultural heritage, and social organization, the Comprehensive Plan for Community Development of Salango "PIDCOSA", was developed at the beginning of 2004 and the became the basis for the Parish Development Plan and the projects
