The distance between any 2 villages is 12 to 38 km. The Wana communities live on their swidden fields, about 1 km apart. Gorontalo villages are scattered on the Gorontalo plain and along the coast. Villages move every year as new land is cleared, and how far they move varies with political, ecological and social conditions. People also travel to trade.
Men live in temporary camps while clearing, hunting or fishing.
There are also permanent villages kept up by the people, in accordance with government orders. Wana structure is based on cognatic kinship plus friends. Property is based on the community, at village territory level. The right to clear land is given to a family. The West-Toradja extended family owns fields and buffaloes as a group.