Curripaco people

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The Curripaco people are an Indigenous Arawakan-speaking group of the northwest Amazon, traditionally living along rivers in Colombia, Venezuela, and Brazil with a culture centered on fishing, horticulture, and complex ritual practices.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Curripaco people canonical 17

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people ⓘ
agriculturalPractice swidden horticulture ⓘ
continent South America ⓘ
cosmologyFeature multi-layered universe ⓘ
country Brazil ⓘ
Colombia ⓘ
Venezuela ⓘ
culturalArea Northwest Amazonia ⓘ
culturalTrait complex ritual practices ⓘ
mythological oral tradition ⓘ
shamanism ⓘ
dwellingType communal houses ⓘ
economicActivity small-scale trade ⓘ
ethnicGroupOf Brazil ⓘ
Colombia ⓘ
Venezuela ⓘ
hasTraditionalKnowledge ethnobotany ⓘ
river navigation ⓘ
language Curripaco language ⓘ
languageFamily Arawakan languages ⓘ
linguisticBranch Northern Arawakan ⓘ
nativeNameLanguage Arawakan languages ⓘ
region Amazonas state (Brazil) ⓘ
linked to: Amazonas state

Amazonas state (Venezuela) ⓘ
Guainía Department ⓘ
Rio Negro basin ⓘ
linked to: Negro River basin
relatedEthnicGroup Baniwa people ⓘ
linked to: Baniwa peoples

Tariana people ⓘ
Warekena people ⓘ
religion indigenous animist beliefs ⓘ
ritualFocus healing ceremonies ⓘ
initiation rites ⓘ
seasonal festivals ⓘ
socialOrganization extended family households ⓘ
kin-based communities ⓘ
stapleCrop maize ⓘ
manioc ⓘ
plantains ⓘ
subsistenceActivity fishing ⓘ
gathering ⓘ
horticulture ⓘ
hunting ⓘ
traditionalHabitat riverine environments ⓘ
tropical rainforest ⓘ
traditionalRegion Amazon rainforest ⓘ
northwest Amazon ⓘ
usesWritingSystem Latin script ⓘ
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (17)

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

Vichada Department → hasIndigenousPeoples → Curripaco people ⓘ
Puerto Inírida → nearbyIndigenousGroups → Curripaco people ⓘ
south-eastern Colombia → inhabitedBy → Curripaco people ⓘ
Curripaco → spokenBy → Curripaco people ⓘ
Curripaco → ethnolinguisticGroup → Curripaco people ⓘ
Baniwa-Curripaco → spokenBy → Curripaco people ⓘ
Piapoco people → neighboringGroup → Curripaco people ⓘ
Warekena people → neighboringGroups → Curripaco people ⓘ
Curripaco language → spokenBy → Curripaco people ⓘ
Kurripako people → alsoKnownAs → Curripaco people ⓘ
Inírida → hasIndigenousCommunity → Curripaco people ⓘ
Cerros de Mono → culturallySignificantFor → Curripaco people ⓘ