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Embera-Wounaan

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Emberá-Wounaan Comarca
administrative territorial entity of Panama
Embera peoplee
indigenous people of Panama, Ecuador, Colombia
Embera
language
Wounaan
language
Embera-Wounaan
The Embera-Wounaan, (also Emberá-Waunana, Chocó) are a semi-nomadic Indigenous people in Panama living in Darién Province on the shores of the Chucunaque, Sambú, and Tuira Rivers and their waterways. The Embera-Wounaan were formerly and widely known by the name Chocó, and they speak the Embera and Wounaan languages, part of the Choco language family.