The Canichana people are an ethnic group in the

Beni Department Beni (), sometimes El Beni, is a northeastern department of Bolivia, in the lowlands region of the country. It is the second-largest department in the country (after Santa Cruz), covering 213,564 square kilometers (82,458 sq mi), and it was cre ...

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. There were 899 of them in 2012. 1,253 people speak the

Canichana language Canichana, or Canesi, Joaquiniano, is a possible language isolate of Bolivia ( department of Beni). In 1991 there were 500 Canichana people, but only 20 spoke the Canichana language; by 2000 the ethnic population was 583, but the language had ...

natively.

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