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Groups who decide to remain uncontacted are referred to as indigenous peoples in voluntary isolation. [1] Legal protections make estimating the total number of uncontacted peoples challenging, but estimates from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in the UN and the nonprofit group Survival International point to between 100 and 200 ...
Pages in category "Indigenous peoples of the Amazon" The following 136 pages are in this category, out of 136 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Bates's 1863 The Naturalist on the River Amazons Manaus, with 2.2 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Amazon basin The Yanomami are a group of approximately 32,000 indigenous people who live in the Amazon rainforest. [10] Members of an uncontacted tribe encountered in the Brazilian state of Acre in 2009 Ribeirinhos dwellings.
Amazonian Kichwas are a grouping of indigenous Kichwa peoples in the Ecuadorian Amazon, with minor groups across the borders of Colombia and Peru.Amazonian Kichwas consists of different ethnic peoples, including Napo Kichwa (or Napu Runa, as they call themselves, living in the Napo and Sucumbíos provinces, with some parts of their community living in Colombia and Peru) and Canelos Kichwa ...
The Circum-Caribbean cultural region was characterized by anthropologist Julian Steward, who edited the Handbook of South American Indians. [1] It spans indigenous peoples in the Caribbean , Central American , and northern South America, the latter of which is listed here.
The Amazon basin formerly flowed west to the Pacific Ocean until the Andes formed, causing the basin to flow eastward towards the Atlantic Ocean. [6] Politically the basin is divided into Peruvian Amazonia, Amazônia Legal of Brazil, the Amazon natural region of Colombia, Amazonas (Venezuelan state), and parts of Bolivia and Ecuador.
The Marubo live in the far west of Brazil, in the Vale do Javari Indigenous Territory, an area covering 83,000 square kilometres (32,000 sq mi).. Access to the Vale do Javari Indigenous Territory is limited by the government of Brazil to protect the indigenous groups inhabiting the area and the environment on which they depend for their traditional lifeways from exploitation by loggers, miners ...
Map "Amazon 2012 Protected Areas and Indigenous Territories" Карты резервации Колумбии; BIA map of Indian reservations in the continental United States; Convenio 169 de la OIT, Survival International; Territorio Indígena y Gobernanza (in Spanish) world indigenous territory map