The Carabayo (who perhaps call themselves Yacumo ) are an uncontacted people of Colombia living in at least three long houses , known as malokas , along the Rio Puré (now the Río Puré National Park ) in the southeastern corner of the country. They live in the Amazonas Department of Colombian Amazon rainforest , near the border with Brazil . They share the protected National Park with the Passé and Jumana people .
4-641: In the last 400 years, Carabayo people have had intermittent contact with outsiders, including violent attacks by slave traders and rubber extractors, resulting in their retreat from outside groups and increased isolation. The Carabayo are also known as the Aroje or Yuri people. They are known as the Aroje to the Bora people . Maku and Macusa are pejorative Arawak terms applied to many local languages, and are not specific to Carabayo. The Carabayo language appears to be
8-598: A member of the Tikuna–Yuri family. In December 2011, President Juan Manuel Santos signed legal decree #4633, which guarantees uncontacted peoples such as the Carabayo the rights to their voluntary isolation, their traditional territories, and reparations if they face violence from outsiders. Bora people The Bora are an Indigenous tribe of the Peruvian , Colombian , and Brazilian Amazon , located between
12-587: The Napo , Putumayo and Caqueta rivers. The Bora speak a Witotan language and comprise approximately 2,000 people. In the last forty years, the Bora have become a largely settled people living mostly in permanent forest settlements. The animist Bora worldview makes no distinction between the physical and spiritual worlds, and spirits are considered to be present throughout the world. Bora families practice exogamy . The Bora have an elaborate knowledge of
16-521: The plant life of the surrounding rainforest. Like other indigenous peoples of the Peruvian Amazon, such as the Urarina , plants, especially trees, hold a complex and important interest for the Bora. Bows and arrows are the main weapons of the Bora culture used in person to person conflict. The Bora have guarded their lands from both indigenous foes and outsider colonials. Around the time of
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