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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...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Kalinago Emberá people Guna people Wayuu people Zenú Ngäbe people...
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    Pütchipü'ü (category Wayuu)
    (in Wayuu, "messenger of the word"; Spanish: palabrero), is the central element in the traditional administration justice system of the Wayuu people. The...
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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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    Wayuunaiki (newspaper) (category Wayuu language)
    Venezuela, published in Spanish and Wayuu, with an emphasis on news related to the Wayuu people and other aboriginal peoples of Venezuela and Colombia. Founded...
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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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    Colombia is null, but endemic heirloom varieties such as Kepshuna of the Wayúu people in La Guajira and various black and red varieties along with the commercial...
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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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