Cubeo people

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The Cubeo people are an Indigenous group of the northwest Amazon, known for their Tukanoan language, complex kinship systems, and traditional riverine rainforest lifestyle in Colombia and neighboring regions.

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Cubeo people canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people
ethnic group
arePartOf Northwestern Amazonian Indigenous peoples
linked to: Tukano peoples
artForm basketry
body painting
featherwork
continent South America
cosmology shamanic cosmology
country Brazil
Colombia
Venezuela
environment tropical rainforest
ethnicGroupOf Colombia
kinshipSystem complex kinship system
language Cubeo language
languageFamily Tucanoan languages
lifestyle riverine rainforest lifestyle
linguisticFeature evidentiality
noun classification
mainCrop manioc
marriageRule prescriptive cross-cousin marriage
oralTradition mythic narratives
populationEstimate several thousand
primaryResidence Vaupés Department
Vaupés River basin
recognizedBy Government of Colombia as Indigenous people
region northwest Amazon
relatedEthnicGroup Barasana people
Desana people
Tukano people
linked to: Tukano peoples
religion Christianity
animism
ritualPractice Yuruparí rituals
riverineSettlement Cuduyari River NERFINISHED
Querarí River
linked to: Losada River

Vaupés River
socialOrganization exogamous sibs
subfamily Eastern Tucanoan languages
linked to: Tucanoan languages
traditionalEconomy subsistence economy
traditionalHousing communal longhouse
traditionalSubsistence fishing
gathering
hunting
swidden horticulture
useOfRivers fishing
trade
transportation

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Colombian Amazon region inhabitedBy Cubeo people
Mitú indigenousPeoples Cubeo people