The Panare, who call themselves E'ñepá, are an indigenous people group who live in the Amazonian region of

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

. Their heartland is located in the Cedeño Municipality, Bolívar State, while a smaller community lives in Northern Amazonas State. They speak the

Panare language Panare is a Cariban language, spoken by the Panare, who number 3,000–4,000 and live in Bolivar State in southern Venezuela. Their main area is South of the town of Caicara del Orinoco, south of the Orinoco River. There are several subdialects ...

, which belongs to the Carib family. While Western culture has had a moderate influence on other tribes of the region, the Panare retain much of their culture and tradition, resembling that of the North American natives in the late 1800s and the early 1900s. The first ever episode of the long-running

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anthropological television series '' Disappearing World'', in 1970 focused on these people.

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Indigenous peoples in Venezuela

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