The Wayuu (also Wayu, Wayú, Guajiro, Wahiro) are an Indigenous ethnic group of the Guajira Peninsula in northernmost Colombia and northwest Venezuela...

Wayuu (Wayuu: Wayuunaiki [waˈjuːnaiki]), or Guajiro, is a major Arawakan language spoken by 400,000 indigenous Wayuu people in northwestern Venezuela...

fifth of six children of a mestizo father and a mother of the indigenous Wayuu people. Velásquez's parents were both teachers, and her father, who also worked...

22-man squad for the 2015 Copa Americana de Pueblos Indígenas, due to his Wayuu ethnicity. After impressing during the tournament, he joined the senior...

Huya (in Wayuu: Juyá, pronounced [huˈja]) is the name of the rain god of the Wayuu people of Venezuela and Colombia. The minor planet 38628 Huya is named...

population of 49,271 people in Venezuela during the 2011 census, they were the second largest indigenous group after the Wayuu people. They speak an agglutinative...

Look up Wayuu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wayuu typically refers to the Wayuu people, an indigenous people of Colombia and Venezuela. Other uses...

Teotihuacan) Totonac religion (Totonac people) Powhatan religion (Powhatan people) Wayuu religion (Wayuu people) Yupik religion (Yupik of Alaska and Eastern...

settlement as the village of Riohacha, as a result of constant attacks by the Wayuu people. In 1544, it was moved to the site of the present-day city. In 1871,...

Soler y Royo in an attempt to "civilize" the Wayuu people. The friars the created the orphanages for Wayuu children beginning with the La Sierrita orphanage...

groups are the Ye'kuana, the Wayuu, the Kali'na, the Ya̧nomamö, the Pemon, and the Warao. The most advanced Indigenous peoples to have lived within the boundaries...

Pimienta. Pimienta identifies as queer. She is of mixed Afro-Colombian and Wayuu descent. She is a single parent. Pimienta is close friends with Canadian...

a zone known as El Cerrejón. It is also home to the indigenous Wayuu people. The Wayuu are mostly herders but also master deep-sea divers, known for collecting...

fellow professional footballer Luis Díaz who plays for Liverpool. He is of Wayuu origin. On 28 October 2023, Díaz's parents were reportedly kidnapped by...

Maicao (Wayuu: mai-ka-u) is a city and municipality in the Department of La Guajira, northern Republic of Colombia. It is located 76 km from Riohacha...

of Costa Rica; the Naso and Kuna people of Panama; the Kogi, Wayuu and Carib of South America; the Minangkabau people of West Sumatra, Indonesia and Negeri...

March 2000. It is named after Juyá, the mythological rain god of the Wayuu people native to South America. Huya's surface is moderately red in color due...

populations. C-M217 is found among the Wayuu people of Colombia and Venezuela. Listed here are notable Indigenous peoples of the Americas by human Y-chromosome...

Kalinago Emberá people Guna people Wayuu people Zenú Ngäbe people...

of Uribia, about 150 km (95 mi) northeast of Riohacha. The indigenous Wayuu people have populated the area for a long time. The headland is also the location...

live streaming service in China Huya (mythology), the rain god of the Wayuu people of Venezuela and Colombia Huya (noble), an Egyptian official during the...

directed by Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego. The film explores the rise of a Wayuu man and his family as they enter the drug trade, prosper, and slowly lose...

main river of La Guajira Department and has great significance for the Wayuu people. A large dam, the "El Cercado", was first proposed in the 1950s in the...

peoples of Colombia. UNESCO report on education of indigenous peoples in Colombia (in Spanish) Ethnic groups of Colombia Documentary about the Wayuu Indigenous...

Zulia. The most numerous indigenous people, at about 200,000, is the Venezuelan part of the Wayuu (or Guajiro) people who primarily live in Zulia between...

adjacent regions of India, Vietnam, Maritime Southeast Asia, and the Wayuu people of South America. It is found in Ossetians 4.7% (1/21), and in Russians...

locality in the Macuira National Natural Park. The specific name wayuu refers to Wayuu people, an ethnic group from the extreme north of Colombia. Males measure...

La Guajira. Pearl deposits led to constant attacks from the indigenous Wayuu and other Spanish conquerors from the neighboring Government of Santa Marta...

territory of Colombia, the Wayuu were unique in having learned the use of firearms and horses. In 1769 the Spanish took 22 Wayuus captive, in order to put...

entered into a gulf (Gulf of Venezuela) where there were villages of the Wayuu people with palafito houses built over the water and supported on stilts made...