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U'wa people
Indigenous people living in the cloud forests of northeastern Colombia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The U'wa are an indigenous people living in the cloud forests of northeastern Colombia. Historically, the U'wa numbered as many as 20,000, scattered over a homeland that extended across the Venezuela-Colombia border. Some 7-8,000 U'wa are alive today.
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![]() Map of Chibcha languages; the U'wa are represented by the easternmost yellow dot | |
Total population | |
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7,000–8,000 | |
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Languages | |
Uw Cuwa, Colombian Spanish | |
Religion | |
Chibcha religion | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Muisca, Lache, Guane, Guahibo |
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The U'wa are known to neighboring indigenous peoples as "the thinking people" or "the people who speak well".[1] They were formerly called Tunebo, but today prefer to be known as U'wa, meaning "people".