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.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Cubeo people canonical 9

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

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 ⓘ
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 ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (9)

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

Colombian Amazon region → inhabitedBy → Cubeo people ⓘ
Mitú → indigenousPeoples → Cubeo people ⓘ
south-eastern Colombia → inhabitedBy → Cubeo people ⓘ
Cubeo language → ethnicGroup → Cubeo people ⓘ
Cubeo language → isSpokenBy → Cubeo people ⓘ
Tucanoan → languageFamilyOf → Cubeo people ⓘ
Barasana people → neighboringGroups → Cubeo people ⓘ
Desana people → neighboringGroups → Cubeo people ⓘ