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The Uru or Uros (Uru: Qhas Qut suñi) are an indigenous people of Bolivia and Peru. They live on a still-growing group of about 120 self-fashioned floating islands in Lake Titicaca near Puno. They form three main groups: the Uru-Chipaya, Uru-Murato, and Uru-Iruito. The Uru-Iruito still inhabit the Bolivian side of Lake Titicaca and the ...
Indigenous peoples in Uruguay or Native Uruguayans, are the peoples who have historically lived in the modern state of Uruguay. Because of genocidal colonial practices, disease and active exclusion, only a very small share of the population is aware of the country's indigenous history or has known indigenous ancestry.
The Charrúa are an Indigenous people or Indigenous Nation of the Southern Cone in present-day Uruguay [6] and the adjacent areas in Argentina (Entre Ríos) and Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul). [ 7 ] [ 8 ] They were a semi-nomadic people who sustained themselves mainly through hunting and gathering.
By 1800, more than 10,000 people lived in Montevideo and another 20,000 in the rest of the province. Out of these, about 30 percent were African slaves. [3] Uruguay's early 19th-century history was shaped by an ongoing conflict between the British, Spanish, Portuguese, and local colonial forces for dominance of the La Plata Basin.
The Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people of Brazil use technology to fend off encroachment in the National Geographic documentary "The Territory."
Guenoa or Güenoa were one of the native nations of Entre Rios, Argentina, Uruguay and some parts of Brazil. [1] They were related to the other tribes in the area like Charrua, Minuane, [2] Yaro and Bohán. [3] [4]
Volunteers and local leaders in Bolivia's high-altitude city of Oruro suited up in safety gear on Saturday to clean the polluted banks of the Andean country's Lake Uru Uru, home to flamingos and ...
In 1998, as the six remaining Juma were struggling to survive, Brazil’s Indigenous bureau, Funai, transferred them to an Uru-Eu-Wau-Wau village, located a few hundred miles away.