Journal of Advanced Zoology ISSN: 0253-7214 Volume 44 Issue S-1 Year 2023 Page 330:341 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Solidarity Economy in the Families of Cascas (La Libertad) and San Agustín (Arequipa): A Comparative Study Yoya Betzabé Flores Pérez 1 , Fany Margarita Aguilar Pichón 2 , Franklin Elder Abanto Chavez 3 , María Emma Zúñiga Vásquez 4 , Soledad Jackeline Zegarra Ugarte 5 , Mario José Vásquez- Pauca 6 , Luz Herfilia Cruzado Saucedo 7 , Rigoberto Hernan Navarrete Flores 8 1 Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Perú. Email: yflores@unitru.edu.pe. ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5194- 4448. SCOPUS: 58000858200 2 Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Perú. Email: fmaguilar@unitru.edu.pe. ORCID ID: 0000-0001- 9255-2432. SCOPUS: 58001499800 3 Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Perú. Email: fabantoch@unitru.edu.pe. ORCID ID: 0000-0002- 7276-4347. SCOPUS ID: 58000858300 4 Universidad Nacional del Altiplano de Puno, Perú. Email: mzuniga@unap.edu.pe. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-5448-7278 5 Universidad Nacional del Altiplano de Puno, Perú. Email: sjzegarra@unap.edu.pe. ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8776-9936 6 Universidad Tecnológica del Perú, Perú. Email: c21854@utp.edu.pe. ORCID ID: 0000-0003-3115- 3758 SCOPUS: 57221595823 7 Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Perú. Email: lcruzados@unitru.edu.pe. ORCID ID: 0000-0003- 2435-616X. SCOPUS: 58073871800 8 Universidad Nacional de Trujillo, Perú. Email: rnavarrete@unitru.edu.pe. ORCID ID: 0000-0002- 9339-465 *Corresponding author’s E-mail: yflores@unitru.edu.pe. Article History Received: 06 June 2023 Revised: 05 Sept 2023 Accepted:11Sept 2023 CC License CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 Abstract The present study was carried out with the objective of knowing, making visible and articulating how family enterprises are presented in two communities of Peru, one from the north: Cascas (La Libertad) and another from the South: San Agustín (Arequipa), allowing the construction of synergies with a territoriality criterion. The solidarity economy achieves the support of people, promotes the development of initiatives, becomes a generator of economic income, a source of skills development, creation of more community economies and extension of the middle class. The methods used are inductive - deductive and analytical - synthetic, which allowed an analysis of the content of family economies, using the techniques questionnaire of closed questions and in-depth interviews, with 100 families from each of the selected communities as the object of study. and autonomy of the family members, allows the equitable distribution and management of resources, bringing as a goal the well-being of these families. Keywords: Family entrepreneurship, Cooperation, Autonomy, Solidarity economy, Territoriality, Synergy