Kãkwã, Cacua or Bará-maku is an indigenous people living in northwestern

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, between Vaupés, Querarí and Papuri rivers, in

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, close to the border with

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l, within Vaupés indigenous Resguardo. The Kãkwã are approximately 250 people, who speak their own language, which is part of the Macu family and is closely related to the

Nukak language The Nukak language ( mbr, Guaviare) is a language of uncertain classification, perhaps part of the macrofamily Puinave-Maku. It is very closely related to Kakwa.Gustavo Politis, ''Nukak: Ethnoarchaeology of an Amazonian People,'' Left Coast Pre ...

. Each kãkwã is part of an exogamous patrilineal clan. The clans engage in marital exchanges and consider themselves "baih", brothers-in-law or bilateral cross-cousins.Silverwood-Cope, Peter L. (1990). ''Os Makú: Povo cazador no noroeste da Amazònia''. Universidade de Brasília. Originally nomadic

hunter-gatherer A traditional hunter-gatherer or forager is a human living an ancestrally derived lifestyle in which most or all food is obtained by foraging, that is, by gathering food from local sources, especially edible wild plants but also insects, fungi, ...

s, later subjected to the neighboring ethnic groups, but currently established in the towns of Wacará and Pueblo Nuevo, their main activity is agriculture, although they continue to hunt and fish.

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