Asháninka people
Also known as Ashaninka people
The Asháninka or Asháninca are an Indigenous people living in the rainforests in the regions of Junín, Pasco, Huánuco, and Ucayali in Peru, and in the State of Acre in Brazil. Their ancestral lands are in the forests of Junín, Pasco, Huánuco and part of Ucayali in Peru.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Asháninka
- Ethnic group.native_name
- Ashenika
- Ethnic group.image
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- Ethnic group.population
- 99,122 (2014)
- Ethnic group.popplace
- Peru (Junín, Pasco, Huanuco, Ucayali) 97,477 (2007), Brazil (Acre) 1,645 (2014)
- Ethnic group.rels
- Traditional tribal religion
- Ethnic group.langs
- Asháninka, Spanish, Portuguese
via Wikipedia infobox
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- History
- Threats
- Demography
- In Peru
- In Brazil
- Traditional dress
- Language
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The Asháninka or Asháninca are an Indigenous people living in the rainforests in the regions of Junín, Pasco, Huánuco, and Ucayali in Peru, and in the State of Acre in Brazil. Their ancestral lands are in the forests of Junín, Pasco, Huánuco and part of Ucayali in Peru.
== Population== thumb|Asháninka men in house, Acre, 2010 The Asháninka are estimated between 25,000 and 100,000, although others give 88,000 to almost 100,000. Only little more than a thousand of them live on the Brazilian side of the border. The Ashaninka communities are scattered throughout the central rainforests of Peru in the provinces of Junin, Pasco, Huanuco, a part of Ucayali, and the Brazilian state of Acre.