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    The Wayuu (also Wayu, Wayú, Guajiro, Wahiro) are an Indigenous ethnic group of the Guajira Peninsula in northernmost Colombia and northwest Venezuela...
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    Wayuu (Wayuu: Wayuunaiki [waˈjuːnaiki]), or Guajiro, is a major Arawakan language spoken by 400,000 indigenous Wayuu people in northwestern Venezuela and...
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    The Wayuu Wikipedia (Wikipeetia süka wayuunaiki) is an edition of Wikipedia in the Wayuu language. It was created on 27 February 2023. The Wayuu Wikipedia...
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  • Look up Wayuu in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Wayuu typically refers to the Wayuu people, an indigenous people of Colombia and Venezuela. Other uses...
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    Patricia Velásquez (category Venezuelan people of Wayuu descent)
    Mummy and its 2001 sequel The Mummy Returns. In 2002, Patricia started the Wayùu Taya Foundation, a foundation committed to improving the living conditions...
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    Solimões-Caribbean: Marawan †; Palikur Marawa † Caribbean Kaketio † Wayuu-Añun Añun Wayuu Lokono-Iñeri Iñeri: Garifuna; Kalhiphona † Lokono Shebayo † Taino...
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    La Guajira Department (category Articles containing Wayuu-language text)
    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...
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    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...
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  • and released in 2024. The film centres on Georgina Epiayu, a transgender Wayuu woman who is struggling to navigate Colombian bureaucracy to acquire a new...
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    Wayuu descent. Martha Peralta Epieyú (1988–), Senator of Colombia for La Guajira, of Wayuu descent. Luis Díaz (1997–), Colombian footballer, of Wayuu...
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    Cathorops wayuu, the Wayuu sea catfish, is a species of sea catfish. It is found in shallow coastal and estuarine waters from Camarones in Colombia to...
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    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...
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  • and Bribri 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...
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    and Bolivia; Aymara in Bolivia and Peru and to a lesser extent in Chile; Wayuu in northern Colombia and northwest Venezuela; and Mapudungun in small pockets...
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  • Wayuu: la niña de Maracaibo (English: Wayuu: The Girl from Maracaibo) is a 2012 Venezuelan crime film directed by Miguel Curiel and starring Daniel Alvarado...
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    more than 800,000 people. Some of the largest indigenous groups are the Wayuu, the Paez, the Pastos, the Emberá and the Zenú. The departments of La Guajira...
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  • Allobates wayuu is a species of frog in the family Aromobatidae. It is endemic to the Serranía de Macuira in La Guajira Department, Colombia, and is only...
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    Southern Quechua. Selk'nam Shipibo Shuar (see Jívaro). Tupi Urarina Wai-Wai Wayuu Xucuru Yaghan Yagua Yąnomamö Zaparos South American cities While Brazil...
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    List of Wikipedias (category Articles containing Wayuu-language text)
    Uiqipitia Iñupiatun Iñupiaq Latn ik 599 14 Unknown date Wayuu Wikipedia Wikipeetia süka wayuunaiki Wayuu Latn guc 590 27 27 February 2023 Adyghe Wikipedia Адыгэ...
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    The La Guajira Desert [la ɣwaˈxiɾa] (Wayuu: Woumainkat Wajiira, Spanish: Desierto de La Guajira) is a desert located in northern Colombia and Venezuela...
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    their mother tongue (main languages: Chinese 400,000, Portuguese 254,000, Wayuu 199,000, Arabic 110,000) Quispe Fernández, Ezio (2024). "Cifras" [Numbers]...
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  • Huya (mythology) (category Wayuu people)
    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...
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    Totonac religion (Totonac people) Powhatan religion (Powhatan people) Wayuu religion (Wayuu people) Yupik religion (Yupik of Alaska and Eastern Russia) Zapotec...
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  • Pimpinero: Blood and Oil (category Wayuu-language films)
    dates 9 September 2024 (2024-09-09) (TIFF) 10 October 2024 (2024-10-10) (Colombia) Running time 121 minutes Country Colombia Languages Spanish Wayuu...
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  • Birds of Passage (film) (category Wayuu-language films)
    directed by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra. The film explores the rise of a Wayuu man and his family as they enter the drug trade, prosper, and slowly lose...
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    separately, not a simple modification of U or Y, and is distinct from UE. Wayuu represents the close central unrounded vowel [ɨ] using this letter. In the...
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    term is still used in other parts of Spanish America; for example, the Wayuu tribes in northern Colombia call their villages rancherías. The Columbia...
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    (Dagger Cactus) fruits, locally known as iguaraya, are relished by the Wayuu from the La Guajira Peninsula of Colombia. Stenocereus are often used as...
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    most spoken languages in Venezuela after the official language of Spanish. Wayuu is the most spoken indigenous language with 294,000 speakers. According...
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  • following subclassification: Caribbean Arawakan Taíno Guajiro (Wahiro) Wayuu (Guajiro, Wahiro) Paraujano (Parauhano, Añun) † Arawák (Lokono) Iñeri (Inyeri)...
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