Potiguara
The Potiguara (also Potyguara or Pitiguara) are an indigenous people of Brazil. The Potiguara people live in Paraíba, in the municipalities of Marcação, Baía da Traição and Rio Tinto. Their population numbers sixteen thousand individuals, who occupy 26 villages in 3 reservations (Terras Indígenas): Potiguara, Jacaré de São Domingos e Potiguara de Monte-Mor. Their name, Potiguara, means "shrimp-eaters", from poty, "shrimp", and uara, "eater", according to Brazilian writer José de Alencar.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Potiguara
- Ethnic group.image
- 200pxAntonio Pessoa Gomes, the "Caboquinho", chief of Potiguara Indians.
- Ethnic group.population
- 16,095
- Ethnic group.popplace
- Brazil
- Ethnic group.langs
- Portuguese, Potiguara
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 18445
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- Commons category
- Potiguaras
- native label
- Potiguara
- described at URL
- pib.socioambiental.org/pt/Quadro_Geral_dos_Povos
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