Carijona are a South American indigenous group known for the
Carijona language
Carijona (Karihona) is a Cariban language, or probably a pair of languages, of Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Carib ...
. They numbered in the thousands in the 1840s, but war with the
Witotoans and exploitation from the rubber industry led to virtual extinction. Some live among the
Correguaje, while descendants of an
Afro-Colombian
Afro-Colombians or African-Colombians ( es, afrocolombianos, links=no) are Colombians of full or partial sub-Saharan African descent (Blacks, Mulattoes, Pardos, and Zambos).
History
Africans were enslaved in the early 16th Century in Colombi ...
named Salvador Perea and a Carijona woman also survived.
Colombia Natural Parks, pg 392
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References
Indigenous peoples in Colombia
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