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Chaco Department
The Paraguayan Chaco or Región Occidental (Western Region) is a semi-arid region in Paraguay, with a very low population density. The area is being rapidly deforested. Consisting of more than 60% of Paraguay's land area, but with less than 10% of the population, the Chaco is one of the most sparsely inhabited areas in South America. The surrounding Gran Chaco area is also a large geographic area that is sparsely populated. Many of those living in the region are indigenous. It covers the departments of Boquerón, Alto Paraguay and the Department of Presidente Hayes, Paraguay. The Chaco region was the scene of the longest territorial war to occur in South America; an armed conflict between Paraguay and Bolivia, lasting from 1932 to 1935. It is also home to sites of historical significance that have been preserved, including Boquerón, Campo Grande, Via Campo, Nanawa, the site of the battle of Cañada Strongest, Carmen, Kilometro 7, Picuiba, and Villamontes, amongst others. Loc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paraguay Regions Map 2
Paraguay (; ), officially the Republic of Paraguay ( es, República del Paraguay, links=no; gn, Tavakuairetã Paraguái, links=si), is a landlocked country in South America. It is bordered by Argentina to the south and southwest, Brazil to the east and northeast, and Bolivia to the northwest. It has a population of seven million, nearly three million of whom live in the Capital city, capital and largest city of Asunción, and its surrounding metro. Although one of only two landlocked countries in South America (Bolivia is the other), Paraguay has ports on the Paraguay River, Paraguay and Paraná River, Paraná rivers that give exit to the Atlantic Ocean, through the Paraná-Paraguay Waterway. Spanish conquistadores arrived in 1524, and in 1537, they established the city of Asunción, the first capital of the Governorate of the Río de la Plata. During the 17th century, Paraguay was the center of Reductions, Jesuit missions, where the native Guaraní people were converted to Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indigenous Peoples In Paraguay
Indigenous peoples in Paraguay, or Native Paraguayans, include 17 ethnic groups belonging to five language families."Paraguay." ''Pan-American Health Organization.'' (retrieved 12 July 2011) ''Countries and Their Cultures.'' (retrieved 12 July 2011) While only a 1.7% of 's population is fully indigenous, 75% of the population identifies as being partially of indigenous descent;"Paraguay: Ethnic Groups." ''CIA: The World Factbook.'' (retri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nivaclé People
The Nivaclé are an indigenous people of the Gran Chaco. An estimated 13,700 Nivaclé people live in the President Hayes and Boquerón Departments in Paraguay, while approximately 200 Nivaclé people live in the Salta Province of Argentina. A very small number of Nivaclé live in Tarija, Bolivia. In the last 50 years, 15,000 Mennonites from Canada, Russia, and Germany have settled in traditional Nivaclé territory. Groups They have five subgroups, which are as follows: * Tovoc Lhavos, river people: Chishamnee Lhavos, people from above * Tovoc Lhavos, river people: Shichaam Lhavos, people from below * Yita' Lhavos, forest people; this group is also known as C’utjaan Lhavos ‘people of the thorns’) * Jotoi Lhavos, people of the esparto grass * Tavashai Lhavos, people of the savanna."Nivaclé - Orientation." [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enxet
The Enxet are an indigenous people of about 17,000 living in the Gran Chaco region of western Paraguay. Originally hunter-gatherers, many are now forced to supplement their livelihood as laborers on the cattle ranches that have encroached upon their dwindling natural forest habitat. Nevertheless, the Enxet are still engaged in an ongoing conflict with the government and ranchers, who want to destroy what remains of the forest to open the land for massive settlement. Today, only a handful of Enxet are still able to maintain their traditional way of life, while the majority live in small settlements sponsored by various missionary organizations. The Enxet and Enlhet Enlhet (Eenlhit), or Northern Lengua, is a language of the Paraguayan Chaco, spoken by the northern Enxet people. It is also known as ''Vowak'' and ''Powok''. In Filadelfia Filadelfia () is the capital of Boquerón Department in the Gran ... languages are still vigorous. References Ethnic groups i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lengua People
The Enxet are an indigenous people of about 17,000 living in the Gran Chaco region of western Paraguay. Originally hunter-gatherers, many are now forced to supplement their livelihood as laborers on the cattle ranches that have encroached upon their dwindling natural forest habitat. Nevertheless, the Enxet are still engaged in an ongoing conflict with the government and ranchers, who want to destroy what remains of the forest to open the land for massive settlement. Today, only a handful of Enxet are still able to maintain their traditional way of life, while the majority live in small settlements sponsored by various missionary A missionary is a member of a religious group which is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.Thomas Hale 'On Being a Mi ... organizations. The Enxet and Enlhet languages are still vigorous. References Ethnic groups ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guaraní People
Guarani are a group of culturally-related indigenous peoples of South America. They are distinguished from the related Tupi people, Tupi by their use of the Guarani language. The traditional range of the Guarani people is in present-day Paraguay between the Paraná River and lower Paraguay River, the Misiones Province, Misiones Province of Argentina, southern Brazil once as far east as Rio de Janeiro, and parts of Uruguay and Bolivia. Although their demographic dominance of the region has been reduced by European colonization of the Americas, European colonisation and the commensurate rise of mestizos, there are contemporary Guarani populations in these areas. Most notably, the Guarani language, still widely spoken across traditional Guarani homelands, is one of the two official languages in Paraguay, the other one being Spanish language, Spanish. The language was once looked down upon by the upper and middle classes, but it is now often regarded with pride and serves as a symbol o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guana People
Guana may refer to: Places * Guana Island, an island in the British Virgin Islands * Guiana Island, also called Guana Island, off Antigua * Guana River, in Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve, in Florida, U.S. Languages * Guana language (Brazil), a language of the Brazilian Terêna * Guana language (Paraguay) Guana is a generic ethnic name of the Gran Chaco. It may refer to: * Guana language (Paraguay) *Guana language (Brazil) Guana is a generic ethnic name of the Gran Chaco The Gran Chaco or Dry Chaco is a sparsely populated, hot and semiarid low ..., a language of the Paraguayan Chaco Other uses * Guana people, or Chané, an ethnic group in Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, and Brazil * Roberto Guana (born 1981), footballer See also * Guyana (other) * Iguana (other) {{disambig, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chané People
Chané is the collective name for the southernmost Arawakan-speaking peoples. They lived in the plains of the northern Gran Chaco and in the foothills of the Andes in Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, and Argentina. The historical Chané are divided into two principal groups. The Chané proper who lived in eastern Bolivia and the Guaná who lived in Paraguay and adjacent Brazil. Twenty-first century survivors of the Chané are the Izoceno people of Bolivia and 3,034 descendants reported in Argentina by the 2010 census. Survivors of the Guaná are the Tereno and the Kinikinao both of Mato Grosso do Sul province in Brazil. Most of the historical Chané were subjects of and absorbed by the Eastern Bolivian Guarani, commonly called Chiriguanos, while the Guaná were subjects of the Mbayá, a Guaycuruan speaking people. History The Chané, together with other Arawak groups, are believed to have originated in northeastern South America, but to have spread southward about 2,500 years ago ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomáraho
The Chamacoco people (Ishír) are an indigenous people of Paraguay. “''Now our territory is that of the company''”, a ''tomáraho'' man said, “''we live there but it isn’t ours; it does not belong to us and has become an enemy place that is killing us off. Before we were brave and strong, but cohabitation with Paraguayans has tamed us''” The Tomáraho worked in the logging camps of the tannin company Carlos Casado and barely survived, ill and malnourished. Their first contact with the ''ebytoso'' was in 1981, when ''Bruno Barrás'' and ''Guillermo Mallero'', Ishir from Fuerte Olimpo, walked to ''San Carlos'' to carry out the first National Indigenous Census. When ''Escobar'' visited the ''tomáraho'' in 1985 they numbered only 87 people. These groups are now on the verge of disappearing due to the poverty resulting from the transformation of their habitat, degradation of natural resources, and the pressure out of the expansion of economic activity. Young people move to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ebytoso
The Chamacoco people (Ishír) are an indigenous people of Paraguay. “''Now our territory is that of the company''”, a ''tomáraho'' man said, “''we live there but it isn’t ours; it does not belong to us and has become an enemy place that is killing us off. Before we were brave and strong, but cohabitation with Paraguayans has tamed us''” The Tomáraho worked in the logging camps of the tannin company Carlos Casado and barely survived, ill and malnourished. Their first contact with the ''ebytoso'' was in 1981, when ''Bruno Barrás'' and ''Guillermo Mallero'', Ishir from Fuerte Olimpo, walked to ''San Carlos'' to carry out the first National Indigenous Census. When ''Escobar'' visited the ''tomáraho'' in 1985 they numbered only 87 people. These groups are now on the verge of disappearing due to the poverty resulting from the transformation of their habitat, degradation of natural resources, and the pressure out of the expansion of economic activity. Young people move to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ishir People
The Chamacoco people (Ishír) are an indigenous people of Paraguay. “''Now our territory is that of the company''”, a ''tomáraho'' man said, “''we live there but it isn’t ours; it does not belong to us and has become an enemy place that is killing us off. Before we were brave and strong, but cohabitation with Paraguayans has tamed us''” The Tomáraho worked in the logging camps of the tannin company Carlos Casado and barely survived, ill and malnourished. Their first contact with the ''ebytoso'' was in 1981, when ''Bruno Barrás'' and ''Guillermo Mallero'', Ishir from Fuerte Olimpo, walked to ''San Carlos'' to carry out the first National Indigenous Census. When ''Escobar'' visited the ''tomáraho'' in 1985 they numbered only 87 people. These groups are now on the verge of disappearing due to the poverty resulting from the transformation of their habitat, degradation of natural resources, and the pressure out of the expansion of economic activity. Young people move to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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