Igara-Paraná River region

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The Igara-Paraná River region is an area of the northwestern Amazon rainforest that forms part of the ancestral homeland of the Huitoto (Witoto) Indigenous people.

All labels observed (4)

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Predicate Object
instanceOf geographical region
river basin region
associatedEthnicGroup Bora people
Huitoto people
Muinane people
Ocaina people
biome humid tropical forest
borderedBy Putumayo River region
country Colombia
culturalRegionFor Huitoto ceremonial dances and chants
maloca-based communal housing traditions
traditional coca and tobacco use in ritual contexts
drainedBy Igara-Paraná River
ecosystemType tropical rainforest
governedUnder Indigenous resguardo (reserve) regimes in parts of the area
hasBiodiversity high Amazonian species richness
hasClimate equatorial climate
hasCulturalSignificanceFor Huitoto cosmology
Huitoto origin myths
hasHydrology network of blackwater and whitewater streams
hasLandUse hunting and gathering
shifting cultivation
small-scale fishing
historicallyAffectedBy Amazon rubber boom
Casa Arana rubber enterprise
indigenousHomelandOf Huitoto people
Witoto people
linked to: Huitoto people
knownFor severe abuses against Indigenous peoples during the rubber boom
languageRegionOf Witotoan languages
locatedIn Amazon Basin
Colombia
Loreto Department (historical region of Colombia)
linked to: Loreto Department

South America
northwestern Amazon rainforest
partOf Colombian Amazon
Putumayo River basin
linked to: Putumayo River

Upper Amazon region
interfluvial area between Caquetá and Putumayo rivers
recognizedAs ancestral territory of Huitoto people
threatenedBy deforestation
loss of Indigenous territories
resource extraction
transportMode fluvial transport by canoe and riverboats
tributaryOf Putumayo River
usedFor traditional agroforestry systems
vegetationType evergreen lowland rainforest

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Referenced by (4)

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

Huitoto traditionalTerritory Igara-Paraná River region
subject linked to: Huitoto (Witoto)
Huitoto people hasPopulationIn Igaraparaná River region
linked to: Igara-Paraná River region
Jucuna region Miriti-Paraná River area
linked to: Igara-Paraná River region
Barasana people riverineLocation Pirá-Paraná River region
linked to: Igara-Paraná River region