Guajiro people

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The Guajiro people, also known as the Wayuu, are an Indigenous group of the Guajira Peninsula in northern Colombia and northwest Venezuela, recognized for their matrilineal social structure, pastoralist traditions, and rich weaving and oral storytelling culture.

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Guajiro people canonical 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Amerindian people
Indigenous people
ethnic group
alsoKnownAs Wayuu people
Wayúu people
linked to: Wayuu people
artForm hammock weaving
mochila bag weaving
textile art
borderStraddlingGroup Colombia–Venezuela border
climateOfHomeland arid
semi-desert
conflictResolution pütchipü’ü (palabrero) mediation system
continent South America
country Colombia
Venezuela
culturalPractice oral storytelling
ritual dances
traditional music
weaving
descentTracedThrough mother
economicActivity handicrafts
small-scale agriculture
weaving
kinshipSystem clan-based
language Wayuu language
languageFamily Arawakan languages
locatedIn northern Colombia
northwestern Venezuela
nativeTo Guajira Peninsula
politicalOrganization clan chiefs
recognizedBy Colombian government
Venezuelan government
region Falcon State
La Guajira Department
Zulia State
religion Roman Catholicism
traditional Wayuu religion
socialStructure matrilineal
traditionalEconomy pastoralism
traditionalHousing rancherías
traditionalLivestock cattle
donkeys
goats
horses
sheep
UNESCOIntangibleHeritageRelated Wayuu normative system applied by the pütchipü’üi (Wayuu palabrero)
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

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Michel Perrin ethnographicFocus Guajiro people
Wayuu people alsoKnownAs Guajiro people