Baure people

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The Baure people are an indigenous group from the Bolivian lowlands, traditionally living in the Beni region and known for their distinct Arawakan language and cultural practices.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Baure people canonical 7

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf indigenous people
colonialContact Jesuit missionaries
colonialLanguageContact Spanish
colonialPeriodActivity lived in Jesuit missions
continent South America
country Bolivia
countrySubdivision Iténez Province
Mamore River region
culturalArea Arawakan cultural sphere
culturalPractice communal festivals
oral storytelling
ritual dances
shamanic healing
ethnicity Baure
hasAutonym Baure
historicalPopulationRegion upper Mamoré River area
historicalReligion indigenous animist beliefs
indigenousTo Amazon basin
linked to: Amazon Basin

Bolivia
language Baure language
languageFamily Arawakan languages
languageStatus endangered language
locatedIn Moxos Plains
linked to: Llanos de Moxos
neighboringIndigenousGroup Ignaciano people
Moxo people
Trinitario people
recognizedAs indigenous nation in Bolivia
region Beni Department
religion Christianity
Roman Catholicism
threat language shift to Spanish
loss of traditional territory
traditionalCraft basketry
ceramics
weaving
traditionalCrop maize
manioc
plantains
traditionalEconomy fishing
gathering
hunting
subsistence agriculture
traditionalHousing palm-thatch roofs
wooden houses
traditionalRegion Bolivian lowlands
traditionalSettlementType village
writingSystemUse Latin alphabet for Baure language

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Referenced by (7)

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

Baure language spokenBy Baure people
Baure language ethnicGroup Baure people
Moxos hasInhabitant Baure people
Baure spokenBy Baure people
Baure ethnicity Baure people
Mojo people relatedEthnicGroup Baure people
Moxo people neighboringGroup Baure people