Guajiro people

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The Guajiro people, also known as the Wayuu, are an Indigenous group of the Guajira Peninsula in northern Colombia and northwest Venezuela, recognized for their matrilineal social structure, pastoralist traditions, and rich weaving and oral storytelling culture.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Guajiro people canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Amerindian people ⓘ
Indigenous people ⓘ
ethnic group ⓘ
alsoKnownAs Wayuu people ⓘ
Wayúu people ⓘ
linked to: Wayuu people
artForm hammock weaving ⓘ
mochila bag weaving ⓘ
textile art ⓘ
borderStraddlingGroup Colombia–Venezuela border ⓘ
climateOfHomeland arid ⓘ
semi-desert ⓘ
conflictResolution pütchipü’ü (palabrero) mediation system ⓘ
continent South America ⓘ
country Colombia ⓘ
Venezuela ⓘ
culturalPractice oral storytelling ⓘ
ritual dances ⓘ
traditional music ⓘ
weaving ⓘ
descentTracedThrough mother ⓘ
economicActivity handicrafts ⓘ
small-scale agriculture ⓘ
weaving ⓘ
kinshipSystem clan-based ⓘ
language Wayuu language ⓘ
languageFamily Arawakan languages ⓘ
locatedIn northern Colombia ⓘ
northwestern Venezuela ⓘ
nativeTo Guajira Peninsula ⓘ
politicalOrganization clan chiefs ⓘ
recognizedBy Colombian government ⓘ
Venezuelan government ⓘ
region Falcon State ⓘ
La Guajira Department ⓘ
Zulia State ⓘ
religion Roman Catholicism ⓘ
traditional Wayuu religion ⓘ
socialStructure matrilineal ⓘ
traditionalEconomy pastoralism ⓘ
traditionalHousing rancherías ⓘ
traditionalLivestock cattle ⓘ
donkeys ⓘ
goats ⓘ
horses ⓘ
sheep ⓘ
UNESCOIntangibleHeritageRelated Wayuu normative system applied by the pütchipü’üi (Wayuu palabrero) ⓘ
writingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Michel Perrin → ethnographicFocus → Guajiro people ⓘ
Wayuu people → alsoKnownAs → Guajiro people ⓘ