Indigenous Chibchan ethnic group of northern Colombia
For other uses, see Arhuaco (disambiguation).
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Arhuaco Ika
Arhuaco men
Total population
27,000
Regions with significant populations
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Colombia
Languages
Arhuaco, Spanish[1]
Religion
traditional tribal religion
Related ethnic groups
Chibchan group
The Arhuaco are an indigenous people of Colombia.[2] They are Chibchan-speaking people and descendants of the Tairona culture, concentrated in northern Colombia in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.[3]
^"Arhuaco." Ethnologue. Retrieved 24 April 2012.
^Refugees, United Nations High Commissioner for. "Refworld | World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - Colombia : Arhuaco". Refworld. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
^"Tairona Civilization". World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2022-02-17.
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system during the 17th and 18th centuries. The indigenous Kogi, Wiwa, Arhuacos (Ijka, Ifca) and Kankuamo people who live in the area today are believed...
and tomb desecration as a cause of climate change and world destruction. Arhuacos Juan Mayr Taironas Alan Ereira DANE (2019). "Población Indígena de Colombia"...
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derived from J with the addition of a bar through the letter. It is used in Arhuaco in Colombia to represent /dʒ/, like j in English just, and in Oniyan when...
extinct for over 30 years. However, its continued existence was known to the Arhuaco community in Sogrome, who referred to the animal as gouna and considered...
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Kankuamo are the least contacted and still retained their independency. The Arhuacos live in the upper valleys of the Piedras River, San Sebastian River, Chichicua...
Retrieved May 2, 2018. "Fuerza Latina - Leonor Zalabata: líder del pueblo arhuaco". dw.com. August 6, 2019. Retrieved June 5, 2020. www.colombiaun.org www...
most of these tribes, from South America, Africa, to Australasia. The Arhuaco, in Colombia, have drug plantations, associated with crossfire from guerilla...
"UNESCO - Ancestral system of knowledge of the four indigenous peoples, Arhuaco, Kankuamo, Kogui and Wiwa of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta". ich.unesco...
and a hat of reed. Their living space is bordered by the Kogui, Wiwa and Arhuaco. From the late 1980s to 2006 over 300 Kankuamo people were murdered during...
Onotos and Eneales) and Cocina people, and, in the south, to the Kogui, Arhuaco, Guanebucan, and Chimila ethnic groups, among others. Archaeological digs...
Europe, leaving the current descendant tribes of today—the Kogi, Arsarios, Arhuacos, Kankwamos, and Chimilas—without any of the gold of their ancestors. The...
Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and is home to Amerindians pertaining to the Arhuaco ethnicity, whom consider Pueblo Bello a sanctuary but by the name of Arumake...
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