Guaycurú
Guaycurú is a collective name for a group of closely related indigenous peoples who now live on the territory of the South American states Argentina and Paraguay . The name comes from the Guaraní , as this people referred to their main competitors in their settlement area.
The two largest groups in the Guaycurú family are the Toba and the Mocovíes . The total number is estimated at around 100,000; exact data is only available for Argentina, where 12,345 Mocovíes, 3,948 Pilagá and 62,047 Toba live. The Guachi group has been considered lost since 1870.
The Guaycurú originally come from Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego and belong to the Pampeano-Patagónico ethnic group . a. related to the Het and Tehuelche . However, they probably migrated north between the 13th and 16th centuries and thus into their current settlement area. There they came into conflict with the Guaraní .
The Guaycurú way of life is characterized by semi-nomadism . They were similar to the Guaraní hunters and gatherers who practiced tropical agriculture and cattle breeding to a limited extent. Today, the majority of them still live according to the traditional way of life, and almost all of them still speak their original language.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Data: 2001 census by INDEC ( Memento from April 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )