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Animism [1] The Pirahã (pronounced [piɾaˈhɐ̃]) [a] are an indigenous people of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. They are the sole surviving subgroup of the Mura people, and are hunter-gatherers. They live mainly on the banks of the Maici River in Humaitá and Manicoré in the state of Amazonas. As of 2018, they number 800 individuals. [2]
In 1988 the US-based World Wildlife Fund (WWF) funded the musical Yanomamo, by Peter Rose and Anne Conlon, to convey what is happening to the people and their natural environment in the Amazon rainforest. [66] It tells of Yanomami tribesmen/tribeswomen living in the Amazon and has been performed by many drama groups around the world. [67]
Shipibo pottery in the Museo de América, Madrid, Spain. The Shipibo-Conibo are an indigenous people along the Ucayali River in the Amazon rainforest in Peru. Formerly two groups, they eventually became one tribe through intermarriage and communal ritual and are currently known as the Shipibo-Conibo people. [2][3]
Pre-Columbian indigenous peoples of the Amazon (8 P) S. Shipibo-Conibo (6 P) T. Tupí people (3 C, 10 P) W. Witoto (1 C, 3 P) X. ... White Amazonian Indians;
The candirú, native to the Amazon River, is a species of parasitic fresh water catfish in the family Trichomycteridae, [97] just one of more than 1200 species of catfish in the Amazon basin. Other catfish 'walk' overland on their ventral fins, [ 98 ] while the kumakuma ( Brachyplatystoma filamentosum ), aka piraiba or "goliath catfish", can ...
The Indigenous peoples in Brazil are the peoples who lived in Brazil before European contact around 1500 and their descendants. Indigenous peoples once comprised an estimated 2,000 district tribes and nations inhabiting what is now Brazil. The 2010 Brazil census recorded 305 ethnic groups of Indigenous people who spoke 274 Indigenous languages ...
According to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics, out of a 31,237,385 population, the Indigenous people in Peru represent about 25.7%. Of those, 95.8% are Andean and 3.3% from the Amazon. [ 2 ] Other sources indicate that the Indigenous people comprise 31% of the total population. [ 5 ][ 6 ]
The Omagua people (also known as the Umana, Cambeba, and Kambeba) are an indigenous people in Brazil 's Amazon Basin. Their territory, when first in contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century, was on the Amazon River upstream from the present-day city of Manaus extending into Peru. They speak the Omagua language.