Yukpa is an
Amerindian
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Many Indigenous peoples of the Am ...
ethnic group that inhabits the northeastern part of the
Cesar Department
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in northern
Colombia
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by the
Serranía del Perijá
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Venezuela (; ), offici ...
bordering
Venezuela
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. Their territory covers the eastern areas of the
municipalities
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of
Robles La Paz
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,
Codazzi and
Becerril
Becerril or Becerril de Campos is a town and municipality of the Colombian Department of Cesar.
Geography
The municipality of Becerril borders to the east with the country of Venezuela where the Serranía del Perijá mountain ranges is shared ...
in ''
Resguardos'' (
indian reserve
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that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band."
Ind ...
) named
Socorpa,
Menkue,
El Cozo
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Religion
* El (deity), a Semitic word for "God"
People
* EL (rapper) (born 1983), stage name of Elorm Adablah, a Ghanaian rapper and sound engineer
* El DeBarge, music artist
* El Franco Lee (1949–2016), American po ...
Iroka and some other small areas in Venezuela. According to an
Inter Press Service
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Hist ...
story, the majority of the Yukpa, who number nearly 10,000, live in Venezuela although some communities are still located in the mountains across the border in Colombia.
Venezuela Government Distributes Land to Yukpa Indians
The Yukpa people have been known to consume certain nest-inhabiting wasp species, such as ''Polistes pacificus
''Polistes pacificus'' is a Neotropical species of social paper wasp belonging to the subfamily Polistinae and the family Vespidae. ''P. pacificus'' can be found distributed throughout most of Central and South America and parts of southern Nort ...
'', which make paper nests that can be quickly knocked from its hanging place on a tree directly into a fire, where the larvae are then toasted.
See also
*Yukpa language
Yukpa (Yuco, Yucpa, Yuko, Yupa) is a Cariban language, spoken by 3,000 people in Zulia State in Venezuela and 3,000 across the border in Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with in ...
Notes
External links
Ethnologue.com: the Yukpa language
Red de Gestores Sociales: Yukpa
ESTUDIO SOBRE LAS CONDICIONES Y CALIDAD DE VIDA DE LA ETNIA YUKPA
ESTUDIO SOBRE LAS CONDICIONES Y CALIDAD DE VIDA DE LA ETNIA YUKPA
Scribd
David M. Howard account of protestant missionaries among Yukpa Indians
"Venezuela Returns More Land to Yukpa People in 2011,"
''Indian Country Today''
"Taking the Gospel to the Yukpa"
The Wall Street Journal
Circum-Caribbean tribes
Indigenous peoples in Colombia
Indigenous peoples in Venezuela
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