Awá

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The Awá are an Indigenous people of the Colombia–Ecuador border region, known for their rainforest-based livelihoods and strong defense of their ancestral territories.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Awá canonical 4
Awá Pit 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Amerindian people ⓘ
Indigenous people ⓘ
ethnic group ⓘ
borderStraddlingPeopleOf Colombia ⓘ
Ecuador ⓘ
collectiveOrganizationType Indigenous organization ⓘ
collectiveRight ancestral territory ⓘ
continent South America ⓘ
country Colombia ⓘ
Ecuador ⓘ
culturalPractice communal land management ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ
shamanism ⓘ
traditional medicine ⓘ
environmentalRole rainforest conservation ⓘ
ethnolinguisticGroup Awá people ⓘ
humanRightsConcernOf Amnesty International ⓘ
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ⓘ
United Nations ⓘ
knownFor defense of ancestral territories ⓘ
rainforest-based livelihoods ⓘ
landTenureSystem collective land ownership ⓘ
language Awá Pit ⓘ
linked to: Awá
languageFamily Barbacoan languages ⓘ
languageStatus endangered language ⓘ
mainColombianDepartment Nariño Department ⓘ
mainEcuadorianProvince Carchi Province ⓘ
Esmeraldas Province ⓘ
linked to: Esmeraldas

Imbabura Province ⓘ
populationStatus vulnerable group ⓘ
primaryHabitat tropical rainforest ⓘ
recognizedAsIndigenousPeopleBy Government of Colombia ⓘ
Government of Ecuador ⓘ
region Colombia–Ecuador border region ⓘ
religionType animism ⓘ
syncretic Christianity ⓘ
selfIdentification Awa-Kwaiker ⓘ
Awá ⓘ
threat armed conflict ⓘ
coca cultivation and related violence ⓘ
environmental degradation ⓘ
illegal logging ⓘ
land grabbing ⓘ
traditionalLivelihood fishing ⓘ
gathering forest products ⓘ
hunting ⓘ
small-scale agriculture ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

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

Awá → language → Awá Pit ⓘ
linked to: Awá
Awá → selfIdentification → Awá ⓘ
Tsáchila → relatedEthnicGroups → Awá ⓘ
subject linked to: tsáchila