Wiwa

This article is about an indigenous people in South America. For the Nigerian civil rights activist and writer, see Ken Saro-Wiwa .

The Wiwa are a Colombian indigenous people . They live on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta between the Río Barcino and Río Guamaca . They share their residential area with the Kogi in the Resguardo of Campo Alegre, Becerril . Smaller settlements can be found on the northern slope of the Sierra Nevada and another municipality in the Serranía de Perijá . The total of 1,850 people are spread over 26 communities and an area of ​​383,879 hectares. Their language belongs to the Chibcha family .

Web links

• Literature about the Wiwa in the catalog of the Ibero-American Institute in Berlin

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This article is based on the article Wiwa ( memento of July 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) from the free encyclopedia Indianer Wiki ( memento of March 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) and is under Creative Commons by-sa 3.0 . A list of the authors was available in the Indian Wiki ( Memento from July 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ).