The Saliba are an original ethnic group that lives in Colombia and Venezuela. In Colombia live Casanare (Orocué, Hato Corozal and Paz de Ariporo), Meta (Puerto Gaitán) and Vichada [Santa Rosalía). In the municipality of Orocué there are 8 reservations: Macucuana, Saladillo, Paravare, El Consejo,...
The Mayans are an ancient people inhabiting Mesoamerica and very particularly in Guatemala and in the Mexican states of Yucatán, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Chiapas and Tabasco. They also developed in Belize, El Salvador and Honduras and today they are the direct descendants of the creators...
They are a native people of Colombia, who live on the northern slope of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in the valleys of the Don Diego, Palomino, San Miguel and Río Ancho rivers. There are about ten thousand people who speak their own language....
Cofán, Kofán or A'i is an Amerindian town that lives in the northwest of the Amazon on the border between Colombia and Ecuador, between the Guamuez River, a tributary of the Putumayo River, and the Aguarico River, a tributary of the Napo River, in the...
Quechua, or Quichua, is an ethnonym used to designate indigenous peoples originating from the Andes Mountains and the current States of Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Chile, Colombia. The name derives from Quechua, a linguistic family extended by much of the South American Andean region and...
The Misak or Guambianos are an original American people who live in the south of Colombia in the department of Cauca. Their original Guambìa Major Reservation is in the municipality of Silvia and they also live in other nearby places, in the Central Cordillera of...
Karapanã is an ethnic group originating from the jungles of the Colombian department of Vaupés and the Brazilian state of Amazonas, dispersed by the Ti, Piraparaná and Papurí rivers, in the Vaupés basin. In ñe'engatú, the name karapanã means "little night owl", an allusion to...
Bora is an indigenous people that lives in the lower Igará Paraná and the mouths of the Cahuinar River, tributaries of the Putumayo River, in the Colombian department of Amazonas and in some places in Peru, to which they were forcibly transferred by rubber tappers....
The ika, iku, or bintukua –commonly called Arhuacos– are an Amerindian people who speak a language of the Chibcha family, and inhabit the southern slopes of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Colombia). In 2005, 22,134 people were registered, 2 in 2018 34,711.1 who speak...
The Pijaos are a group of Amerindian peoples from Tolima and other neighboring territories in Colombia....