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This article presents information on the urban indigenous population in Leticia (Colombian Amazon) in relation to authors who have affirmed that indigenous urbanization corresponds to a model of high mobility between the city and extra-urban territories, where urban dwellings are part of a system of "multi-sited dwellings". Our data reveals an urban indigenous population that has been established in the city for a long time, without active links with the territories of origin and little access to land in the peri-urban area. The oldest Magütá (Tikuna) and Cocama populations and the early immigration of the People of the Center make up the peri-urban indigenous population of Leticia, which has had political and territorial visibility since the 1980s with the legal recognition of its territories and authorities. The urban indigenous population is more than double the peri-urban indigenous population, but the former has barely gained political visibility since the 2010s, with the creation of an indigenous council called CAPIUL. In the peri-urban area there are several nodes that are part of a circuit of ceremonial exchanges that have been articulated with these new political-territorial actors of the city and that is called "the path of tobacco". The circuits of multi-situated dwellings that we do not find connecting urban dwellings with extra-urban territories --if we look at it only from the point of view of ethnic groups or kinship-- we come to find it in a new form of political and territorial construction that connects urban actors with peri-urban settlements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]