Achagua people
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
 Colombia,  Venezuela | |
| Languages | |
| Achagua | |
| Religion | |
| traditional tribal religion |
The Achagua people (also Achawa and Axagua) are an indigenous people in 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]
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]
Notes
- 1 2 3 "Achagua." Encyclopedia Britannica. (retrieved 1 Dec 2011)
- 1 2 James Stuart Olson (1991), The Indians of Central and South America: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary, Greenwood Publishing Group. p2
External links
- Achagua artwork, National Museum of the American Indian
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