Wounaan

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The Wounaan , also called Noanama and Wunana , are an indigenous people in Colombia and Panama .

They live in Colombia on the lower reaches of the Río San Juan and Río Docampado in an area of ​​189,452 ha. The population was estimated in 1997 by the Departamento Nacional de Planeación at 7,962 people. The presence of armed groups and the increased violence as a result of the coca cultivation pouring into the Wounaan area makes it increasingly difficult for the Wounaan to hunt or forage.

In Panama, around 3,000 Wounaan live in the autonomous indigenous territory of Emberá-Wounaan .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ UN: 34 indigenous peoples of Colombia shortly before the extinction. In: Survival International. September 6, 2010, accessed September 7, 2010 .

This article is based on the article Wounaan ( 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 ).