Guaymí

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Painting member of the Guaymí

The Guaymí or Ngobe-Bugle (new self-name as a comprehensive term from the lower ethnic groups Ngobe or Ngäbe and Bugle ) are an indigenous people in Panama and Costa Rica . They live in particular in the remote areas of the Ngöbe-Buglé territory , which was formed from parts of the provinces of Bocas del Toro , Chiriquí and Veraguas .

The traditional subsistence economy of the Guaymí consists of agriculture , livestock , hunting and fishing .

Linguistically, the Guaymí are divided into two very different local variants (or, according to SIL International , individual languages): Buglere with 2,500 speakers and Ngäbere , which is the most widely spoken of the Chibcha languages with around 130,000 speakers .

The dress of women is called "Dongdu" or "Nagua" in the Guaymí language.

In May 2012, Guaymí Indians protested against the construction of the Barro Blanco hydropower plant , which would flood Ngöbe territories. Several demonstrators were arrested during the protests. The project also endangers the existence of the Tabasará frog . The Senckenberg Institute in Frankfurt was able to detect 33 amphibian species that are classified as “endangered” or “critically endangered”. Conversely, 15% of the species in Panama that are endangered in this way live in the Tabasará area. 5,000 Ngobe live along the Tabasará.

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  1. ↑ http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2012/03/20123208464402131.html
  2. ↑ Andreas Hertz, Sebastian Lotzkat, Arcadio Carrizo, Marcos Ponce, Gunther Köhler, Bruno Streit: Field notes on findings of threatened amphibian species in the central mountain range of western Panama , in: Amphibian and Reptile Conservation 6,2 (2012) 9- 30th ( PDF 1.26 MB)

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