Achagua people
| Regions with significant populations | |
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| Colombia, Venezuela | |
| Languages | |
| Achagua | |
| Religion | |
| Traditional religion | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Guahibo, U'wa, and Other Arawakan-speaking peoples Especially Baniwa, Tariana, and Tegua |
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[edit]
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Culture[edit]
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[edit]
Achagua people speak the Achagua language, a Maipurean Arawakan language.[1]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ 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[edit]
- Achagua artwork, National Museum of the American Indian Archived 9 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine
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