Yagua people

Also known as nyhamwo

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.

Key facts

Ethnic group.group: Yagua
Ethnic group.image: Yahua Blowgun Amazon Iquitos Peru.jpg
Ethnic group.caption: Yagua man demonstrating the use of a punaca at one of the Amazonian islands near Iquitos
Ethnic group.total: 6,000
Ethnic group.total_year: 2000
Ethnic group.popplace: ,
Ethnic group.rels: traditional tribal religion, Christianity
Ethnic group.langs: Yagua, Spanish
Ethnic group.related: Yameo people

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Image: Yahua Blowgun Amazon Iquitos Peru.jpg

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==Location== Currently the Yagua live in some 30 communities scattered throughout a section of the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon basin which can roughly be described as a rectangle 200 miles wide and 350 miles long (70,000 sq. miles) extending southward from the second to the fifth parallel and westward from the 70th to the 75th meridian west.