Cucapá

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Cucapá refers to the Cocopah (Cocopa), an Indigenous people native to the lower Colorado River region of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States, known for their riverine culture and traditional agriculture.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Cucapá canonical 2
Cocopá 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people
Native American people
Uto-Aztecan ethnic group
countryPresentIn Mexico
United States
culturalPractices basketry
ceremonial dances
storytelling
culturalRegion American Southwest
Northwest Mexico
linked to: Northwestern Mexico

Yuman peoples
economyToday agriculture
cultural tourism
wage labor
facingIssues environmental degradation of the Colorado River delta
language endangerment
water rights conflicts
hasNameVariant Cocopa
linked to: U.S. Cocopa

Cocopah
hasReservation Cocopah Indian Reservation
language Cocopah language
languageFamily Yuman language family
nativeTo lower Colorado River region
northwestern Mexico
southwestern United States
populationTrend declining then partially recovering in 20th and 21st centuries
recognizedAs federally recognized tribe in the United States
relatedEthnicGroup Maricopa
Mojave
Quechan
linked to: Quechan people
religion Roman Catholicism
traditional Indigenous beliefs
reservationLocatedIn Yuma County, Arizona
riverCulture Colorado River
stateOrRegionPresentIn Arizona
Baja California
California
Sonora
traditionalCrops beans
cotton
maize
squash
traditionalHousing brush dwellings
riverbank settlements
traditionalSubsistence fishing
gathering wild plants
hunting
riverine agriculture
traditionalTerritoryIncludes Colorado River delta
Sonoran Desert riparian zones

How these facts were elicited

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Cocopah language hasAlternativeName Cocopá
linked to: Cucapá