Guajibo
Guahibo, Guajibo or Sikuani may refer to: * Guahibo people, an ethnic group of Colombia and Venezuela * Guahibo language Guahibo, the native language of the Guahibo people, is a Guahiban languages, Guahiban language that is spoken by about 23,006 people in Colombia and additional 8,428 in Venezuela. There is a 40% rate of monolingualism, and a 45% literacy rate. ...

Guahibo People
The Guahibo (also called Guajibo, or Sikuani, though the latter is regarded as derogatory) people are an indigenous people native to the Llanos or savanna plains in eastern Colombia (Arauca, Meta, Guainia, and Vichada departments) and in southern Venezuela near the Colombian border. Their population was estimated at 23,772 people in 1998. A related group, sometimes considered a sub-tribe of the Guahibo, are the Playero, whose population, estimated in the early 1980s at 200 people, live along the Arauca River. Municipalities belonging to Guahibo territory The Guahibo inhabited the Llanos of Arauca. History An 1856 watercolor by Manuel María Paz is an early depiction of the Guahibo people in Casanare Province. From the late 1700s until at least 1970s, Guahibos and the related Cuiva people suffered severe, if sporadic, violence at the hand of Colombian and Venezuelan colonists. Episodes of violence included an 1870 massacre of over two hundred Guahibos organized by Venezue ...
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