Achagua people
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{{Short description|Indigenous people of Colombia and Venezuela}}{{Expand language|langcode=es}}{{Infobox ethnic group
| group = Achagua
|native_name =
|population =
| popplace = Colombia, Venezuela
| rels = Traditional religion
| langs = Achagua
| related = Guahibo, U'wa, and Other Arawakan-speaking peoples
Especially Baniwa, Tariana, and Tegua
}}
The Achagua (also Achawa and Axagua) are an Indigenous people of Colombia and Venezuela.[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/3458/Achagua "Achagua."] Encyclopædia Britannica. (retrieved 1 December 2011) At the time of the Spanish colonization of the Americas, their territory covered the present-day Venezuelan states of Bolívar, Guárico and Barinas.James Stuart Olson (1991), The Indians of Central and South America: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary, Greenwood Publishing Group. p2 In the late twentieth century there were several hundred Achaguas remaining.
Municipalities belonging to Achagua territories
| class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"
! scope="col" | Name ! scope="col" | Department ! scope="col" | Altitude (m) ! scope="col" | Map |
| align=center | Támara (shared with U'wa) | align=center | Casanare | align=center | 1156 | align=center | File:Colombia - Casanare - Támara.svg |
| align=center | Nunchía (shared with U'wa) | align=center | Casanare | align=center | 398 | align=center | File:Colombia - Casanare - Nunchía.svg |
| align=center | Yopal
| align=center | Casanare | align=center | 390 | align=center | File:Colombia - Casanare - Yopal.svg |
| align=center | Aguazul (shared with Tegua) | align=center | Casanare | align=center | 290 | align=center | File:Colombia - Casanare - Aguazul.svg |
| align=center | Tauramena
| align=center | Casanare | align=center | 460 | align=center | File:Colombia - Casanare - Tauramena.svg |
| align=center | Recetor (shared with Tegua) | align=center | Casanare | align=center | 800 | align=center | File:Colombia - Casanare - Recetor.svg |
| align=center | Chámeza (shared with Tegua) | align=center | Casanare | align=center | 1150 | align=center | File:Colombia - Casanare - Chámeza.svg |
| align=center | Paya
| align=center | Boyacá | align=center | 970 | align=center | File:Colombia - Boyaca - Paya.svg |
| align=center | Labranzagrande (shared with U'wa & Guahibo) | align=center | Boyacá | align=center | 1210 | align=center | File:Colombia - Boyaca - Labranzagrande.svg |
Culture
Achagua people live in large villages. Clans live together in communal houses. Polygamy is commonplace. They farm crops, such as bitter cassava. They traditionally poison their arrows with curare.
There is a small town in Apure called Achaguas.{{Clarify|reason=How is this relevant? Explain|date=September 2024}}
Language
Achagua people speak the Achagua language, a Maipurean Arawakan language.
See also
References
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{{Wikisource|The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Achaqua|Achaqua}}
External links
- [http://www.nmai.si.edu/searchcollections/results.aspx?regid=105 Achagua artwork], National Museum of the American Indian {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809002015/http://www.nmai.si.edu/searchcollections/results.aspx?regid=105 |date=9 August 2016 }}
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Category:Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean