Kankuamo Indians
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Name (Latin)
Kankuamo Indians
Other forms of name
Kankuaka Indians
Kankuané Indians
Kankui Indians
See Also From tracing topical name
Chibcha Indians
Indians of South America Colombia
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q5957943
Library of congress:
sh2011004439
Sources of Information
- Work cat: Los idiomas de la reetnización: Corpus Christi y pagamentos entre los indígenas kankuamo de la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, 2011, c2011.
- Wikipedia Spanish WWW site, Sept. 6, 2011(Kankuamo Indians, alternate names: Kankuaka, Kankui, Kankuané)
Wikipedia description:
The Kankuamo, Kankuaka, Kankui or Kankuané are an Indigenous people of Colombia, living on the southern slopes of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta up until the north of the César department (corregimientos: Atánquez, Guatapurí, Chemesquemena, Los Haticos, La Mina and Rio Seco). The Kankuamo people, estimated at 15,000 individuals, historically spoke Sánha, a dialect of the Atanque language of the Chibchan family. Today, the Kankuamo language is extinct and the people speak only Spanish. Their laws are borne from nature and they consider the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, the highest mountain range closest to the sea, as sacred. In their native tongue they call this Umunukunu.
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