The Juris were a tribe of
South American Indigenous people, formerly occupying the country between the rivers Içá (lower
Putumayo) and
Yapura, north-western
Brazil. In ancient days they were the most powerful tribe of the district, but in 1820 their numbers did not exceed 2000. Owing to inter-marrying, the Juris are believed to have been extinct for half a century. They were closely related to the
Passes, and were like them a fair-skinned, finely built people with quite European features.
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Ethnic groups in Brazil
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