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Macuna people
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- Instance of
- indigenous people
- Languages spoken
- Tucanoan
- Native language
- Tucanoan
- Population
- 528
- Country of origin
- Colombia
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- different from
- Macuna
- language used
- Macuna
- native label
- Makuna
- described at URL
- pib.socioambiental.org/pt/Quadro_Geral_dos_Povos
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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 Macuna are a Tucanoan-speaking group of the eastern part of the Amazon basin, located around the confluence of the Pira Paraná River and Apaporis river, in the Colombian Vaupés Department and the Brazilian state of Amazonas. There are no reliable census data for the Macuna. The entire population was estimated at some 600 individuals in 1991 (compared with 400 in 1973), of which 450 lived in Colombia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Macuna people” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.