Indigenous peoples in Colombia

ethnic group indigenous to South America

right|thumb|260px|Location of Muisca in Colombia. right|thumb|260px|View of the Eastern Ranges of the Andean natural region[[Lake Tota is clearly visible]] right|thumb|260px|The Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the Eastern Ranges; territory of the Muisca right|thumb|260px|Southwestern Altiplano; Bogotá savanna, territory of the southern mosca (zipa)

Indigenous American ethnic group of the Guajira Peninsula

indigenous people of Panama and Colombia

extinct language of Colombia, spoken by the Muisca, one of the four advanced indigenous civilizations of the Americas

thumb|200px| Statuette of a Quimbaya cacique sitting on a stool, in Museum of the Americas ([[Madrid, Spain)]] The Quimbaya () were a small, ancient indigenous group in present-day Colombia noted for their gold work characterized by technical accuracy and detailed designs. The majority of the gold work is made in tumbaga alloy, with 30% copper, which colours the pieces.

indigenous Chibchan ethnic group of northern Colombia

thumb|upright=1.3|Map showing ancient pre-Columbian cultures in northern South America Tairona or Tayrona was a Pre-Columbian culture of Colombia, which consisted of a group of chiefdoms in the region of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in present-day Cesar, Magdalena and La Guajira Departments of Colombia, South America, which goes back at least to the 1st century AD and had significant demographic growth around the 11th century.

Indigenous people in Colombia

The Ticuna (also Magüta, Tucuna, Tikuna, or Tukuna, ) are an indigenous people of Brazil, Colombia (6,000), and Peru (7,000). They are the most numerous tribe in the Brazilian Amazon. According to the 2022 Brazilian census, 74,601 Ticuna people live in Brazil, making them the most populous Indigenous ethnic group in the country.

The Arhuaco are an Indigenous people of Colombia. They are Chibchan-speaking people and descendants of the Tairona culture, concentrated in northern Colombia in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

The Witoto (also Huitoto or Uitoto) are an Indigenous people in southern Colombia and northern Peru.

indigenous people of Panama, Ecuador, Colombia

The Awá, also known as the Kwaiker or Awa-Kwaiker, are an ancient indigenous people of Ecuador and Colombia. They primarily inhabit the provinces of Carchi and Sucumbios in northern Ecuador and southern Colombia, particularly the departments of Nariño and Putumayo. Their population is around 32,555. They speak a language called Awa Pit.

The Nukak people (also Nukak-Makú) live between the Guaviare and Inírida rivers, in the depths of the tropical humid forest, on the fringe of the Amazon basin, in Guaviare Department, Republic of Colombia. They are nomadic hunter-gatherers with seasonal nomadic patterns and practice small-scale shifting horticulture. They were classified as an "uncontacted people" until 1981, and have since lost half of their population primarily to disease. Part of their territory has been used by coca growers, ranchers, and other settlers, as well as being occupied by guerrillas, army and paramilitaries. Res

ethnic group

indigenous people of Brazil and Colombia

indigenous people living in the cloud forests of northeastern Colombia

indigenous ethnic group in Venezuela

Yagua are an indigenous people in Colombia and northeastern Peru, numbering approximately 6,000. Currently, they live near the Amazon, Napo, Putumayo and Yavari rivers and their tributaries. As of 2005, some Yagua have migrated northward to Colombia, near the town of Leticia.

The Zenú, Sinú or Cenú is a pre-Columbian culture and Indigenous people in Colombia, whose ancestral territory comprises the valleys of the Sinú and San Jorge rivers as well as the coast of the Caribbean around the Gulf of Morrosquillo. These lands lie within the departments of Córdoba and Sucre.

Indigenous ethnic group in South America

ethnic group

indigenous tribe of South America

descendants of the pre-Columbian inhabitants of Colombia

from Huila, Colombia

Baniwa (also known with local variants as Baniva, Baniua, Curipaco, Vaniva, Walimanai, Wakuenai) are indigenous South Americans, who speak the Baniwa language belonging to the Maipurean (Arawak) language family. They live in the Amazon Region, in the border area of Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela and along the Rio Negro and its tributaries.

indigenous people who live in the Catatumbo River basin in Norte de Santander in Colombia

Indigenous pre-columbian ethnic group and Amerindian nation maintaining their indigeneity

thumb|right|Guambia, Colombia thumb|Flag The Guambiano or Misak are an indigenous people of the department of Cauca in Colombia. Their language is known as Guambiano and is one of the Coconucan languages. The majority lives in the western part of the Colombian Andes range (Cordillera). Some Guambiano can also be found in Huila Department.

Indigenous people in Colombia

archaeological culture

indigenous people in the Andes of north-eastern Colombia

Amerindian people of Colombia

indigenous people

The Mokaná (also Mocaná) are an indigenous people living in the Atlántico Department of Colombia. They are the only indigenous community in the department. The Mokaná language, part of the Malibu family of languages, is extinct; only 500 words have been preserved.

Extinct South American people

ethnic group

indigenous people in the Ecuador and Colombia

indigenous group native to Colombia

The Carabayo (who perhaps call themselves Yacumo) are an uncontacted people of Colombia living in at least three long houses, known as malokas, along the Rio Puré (now the Río Puré National Park) in the southeastern corner of the country. They live in the Amazonas Department of Colombian Amazon rainforest, near the border with Brazil. They share the protected National Park with the Passé and Jumana people.

Group of prehispanic indigenous people of Colombia

Indigenous people of Brazil

amazonian indigenous people who live in Brazil and Colombia

Barasana (alternate names Barazana, 'Panenua, Pareroa, or Taiwano' is an exonym applied to an Amazonian people, considered distinct from the Taiwano, though the dialect of the latter is almost identical to that of the Barasana, and outside observers can detect only minute differences between the two languages. They are a Tucanoan group located in the eastern part of the Amazon Basin in Vaupés Department in Colombia (Apaporis River) and Amazonas State in Brazil. As of 2000, there were at least 500 Barasanas in Colombia, although some recent estimates place the figure as high as 1,950. A further

Carijona are a South American Indigenous group known for the Carijona language. They numbered in the thousands in the 1840s, but war with the Witotoans and exploitation from the rubber industry led to virtual extinction. Some live among the Correguaje, while descendants of an Afro-Colombian named Salvador Perea and a Carijona woman also survived.

The Wanano are an Indigenous people of Brazil and Colombia, who speak a Tucanoan language.

ethnic group in Columbia and Venezuela

Siriano (also called "Selea" or "Sürá") are a Tucanoan people indigenous to Colombia and Brazil. Their total population is estimated at 750, with most living in Colombia. Their exogamous culture means that, glossologically, speakers are identified by the first language of their father. The Siriano language is Tucanoan.

indigenous people of Colombia

The Pira-tapuya, or variations like Pira-Tapuia, Piratapuyo, etc., or Tapuya () for short, are an indigenous people of the Amazon regions. They live along the Vaupés River in Colombia and in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.

thumb|A Makuna shaman and his disciple, dancing around a sick young man, diagnose the cause of the illness with the help of hallucinogenic drugs.

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.

The Koreguaje, also known as Korebaju people are an Indigenous people of Colombia who speak the Koreguaje language. ==Description and history== The Koreguaje people are an Indigenous people who live along the Orteguaza River in the Caquetá Department in Colombia. The Muina-Murui (Huitoto) communities are their neighbours along the Caquetá River. In 1948 the "Correguaje" tribe was recorded as inhabiting "a number of villages on the Oretguaza River in Colombia (lat. 1° N., long. 75° W.), and were categorized as one of five groups of Western Tucanoan-speaking peoples, who were "apparently closely

ethnic group

part of the Spanish conquest of Colombia

extinct indigenous Colombian tribe

The Nutabe (or "Nutabae") are an indigenous people who inhabit the department of Antioquia in Colombia. Their numbers began to plummet around the first half of the 16th century due to the European colonization of the Americas. Spanish records indicate that this tribe lived in and around the Aburrá Valley, near present-day municipalities like Itagüí, Envigado and Sabaneta, and the towns of Toledo, San Andrés de Cuerquia and Ituango. In 1998, the Nutabe cacique Virgilio Sucerquia Chancí was assassinated by paramilitaries in a crime against humanity in order to take control of the ancestral terri

Indigenous people of Colombia

indigenous people in Colombia