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Wañaco (Wanaco)

"Wañaco" is an alternate name for the Bara tribe of Brazil and Colombia. This is actually the name of a particular Bara subgroup, located in Colombia near the Brazilian border.

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Here are links to our webpages about the Wañaco tribe and language:

Bará
Tucanoan language family
Colombian tribes
Amazonian Indians
South American languages

Here are a few good books about the Wañacos:
The Fish People: Linguistic Exogamy and Tukanoan Identity in Northwest Amazonia
The Amazonian Languages

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