Aguano

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The Aguano are a small indigenous people who live in eastern Peru . They live mainly in the Amazon lowlands on the Río Huallaga and Río Samiria . The Aguano, today strongly acculturated , they speak Spanish today and have adopted the Roman Catholic faith, live mainly from fishing and from the cultivation of cassava and maize .

The traditional language of the Aguano belongs to the indigenous Pano language group .

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