Achagua people
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| Colombia, Venezuela | |
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| Achagua | |
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| Traditional religion | |
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| Guayupe, Tegua, U'wa, |
The Achagua (also Achawa and Axagua) are an indigenous people of Colombia and Venezuela.[1] At the time of the Spanish colonization of the Americas, their territory covered the present-day Venezuelan states of Bolívar, Guárico and Barinas.[2] In the late twentieth century there were several hundred Achaguas remaining.[2]
Municipalities belonging to Achagua territories[]
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Culture[]
Achagua people live in large villages. Clans live together in communal houses. Polygamy is commonplace. They farm crops, such as bitter cassava. They traditionally poison their arrows with curare.[1]
There is a small town in Apure called Achaguas.
Language[]
Achagua people speak the Achagua language, a Maipurean Arawakan language.[1]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Achagua." Encyclopædia Britannica. (retrieved 1 December 2011)
- ^ Jump up to: a b James Stuart Olson (1991), The Indians of Central and South America: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary, Greenwood Publishing Group. p2
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External links[]
- Achagua artwork, National Museum of the American Indian
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Categories:
- Circum-Caribbean tribes
- Indigenous peoples in Colombia
- Indigenous peoples in Venezuela