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...
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Patricia Velásquez (category Venezuelan people of Wayuu descent)
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...
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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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Luis Díaz (footballer, born 1997) (category Wayuu people)
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...
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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...
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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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Teotihuacan) Totonac religion (Totonac people) Powhatan religion (Powhatan people) Wayuu religion (Wayuu people) Yupik religion (Yupik of Alaska and Eastern...
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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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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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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...
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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...
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Lido Pimienta (category Wayuu people)
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...
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Maicao (category Articles containing Wayuu-language text)
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...
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Jesús Díaz (footballer) (category Wayuu people)
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...
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Matrilineality (section Wayuu)
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...
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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...
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Kalinago Emberá people Guna people Wayuu people Zenú Ngäbe people...
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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...
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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...
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Birds of Passage (film) (category Wayuu-language films)
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...
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peoples of Colombia. UNESCO report on education of indigenous peoples in Colombia (in Spanish) Ethnic groups of Colombia Documentary about the Wayuu Indigenous...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Martha Peralta Epieyú (category Wayuu people)
lawyer, specialist in environmental law and indigenous leader of the Wayuu people belonging to the Epinayú Epieyú clan. She is president of the political...
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La Guajira. Pearl deposits led to constant attacks from the indigenous Wayuu and other Spanish conquerors from the neighboring Government of Santa Marta...
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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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