Goajiro

South Americapastoralists

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The Guajiro are an indigenous people living in Colombia and Venezuela. Their traditional homeland consists of a peninsula called “La Guajira” located in the Caribbean Sea along the Colombia-Venezuela border. Pre-contact Guajiro society was probably egalitarian, based on an economy of horticulture, gathering, hunting, and fishing, depending on the region. By mid-1990s, the Guajiro were strongly hierarchical with subsistence based primarily on pastoralism.

Identifier
Region
  • South America
Subregion
  • Northwestern South America
Subsistence Type
  • pastoralists
Samples
Countries
  • Colombia
  • Venezuela
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