Turiwára People
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Turiwára or Turiuara are an
indigenous people of Brazil Indigenous peoples in Brazil ( pt, povos indígenas no Brasil) or Indigenous Brazilians ( pt, indígenas brasileiros, links=no) once comprised an estimated 2000 tribes and nations inhabiting what is now the country of Brazil, before European con ...
, living in the states of
Pará Pará is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins (state), Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas (Brazilian state) ...
and Amazonas. In 1995, their population was 30. Their language, Turiwára, which belongs to subgroup VIII of the Tupi-Guarani languages, is extinct."Turiwára."
''Ethnologue.'' Retrieved 11 April 2012.


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Turwára artwork
National Museum of the American Indian Indigenous peoples of the Amazon Indigenous peoples in Brazil {{Brazil-ethno-group-stub