Abipón

South Americahunter-gatherers
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The Abipón were a nomadic people occupying the Gran Chaco region of Paraguay and Argentina. Traditionally subsistence was based on hunting, fishing, and gathering, with some very limited farming. After the acquisition of the horse from Spanish or other ethnic groups, they abandoned farming entirely for a life of raiding, and were much feared by their neighbors as well as the Spanish. By the 1770s or early 1800s the Abipón ceased to exist as a viable tribal group as the result of warfare, disease or by assimilation into surrounding ethnic populations.

Identifier
Region
  • South America
Subregion
  • Southern South America
Subsistence Type
  • hunter-gatherers
Samples
Countries
  • Argentina
  • Paraguay
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