Tiriyo
| Tiriyo in the area of the Tumucumaque National Park between the states of Amapá , Pará as well as French Guiana and Suriname | |||
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| Location: | Pará , Brazil | ||
The Tiriyó , also known as the trio , are an indigenous people of South America . They live in the Brazilian state of Pará , especially in the Tumucumaque National Park , there since the late 1960s, and in the south of Suriname , in the Sipaliwini district , here and there. a. in Kwamalasamutu . Their number was estimated at around 2000 tribesmen in 2005. The indigenous mixed area Parque Indígena Tumucumaque is their main habitat, which they share with Aparai , Katxuyana , Wayana and the isolated Akurio and those from the Rio Citaré.
Their language is also called Tiriyó and belongs to the Caribbean language family .
Web links
Commons : Tiriyo - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Tiriyó on the website Povos Indígenas no Brasil , socioambiental.org (English, Portuguese)
- The Tiriyó language
Individual evidence
- ↑ Parque Indígena Tumucumaque - Terras Indígenas no Brasil. In: org.br. terrasindigenas.org.br, accessed August 3, 2020 (Brazilian Portuguese).