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Achagua people

Indigenous people of Colombia and Venezuela

Field	Value
group	Achagua
popplace	Colombia, Venezuela
rels	Traditional religion
langs	Achagua
related	Guahibo, U'wa, and Other Arawakan-speaking peoples
Especially Baniwa, Tariana, and Tegua

Especially Baniwa, Tariana, and Tegua The Achagua (also Achawa and Axagua) are an Indigenous people of Colombia and Venezuela. At the time of the Spanish colonization of the Americas, their territory covered the present-day Venezuelan states of Bolívar, Guárico and Barinas. In the late twentieth century there were several hundred Achaguas remaining.

Municipalities belonging to Achagua territories

Name	Department	Altitude (m)
urban centre	Map
Támara
(shared with U'wa)	Casanare	1156	[[File:Colombia - Casanare - Támara.svg	100px	center]]
Nunchía
(shared with U'wa)	Casanare	398	[[File:Colombia - Casanare - Nunchía.svg	100px	center]]
Yopal	Casanare	390	[[File:Colombia - Casanare - Yopal.svg	100px	center]]
Aguazul
(shared with Tegua)	Casanare	290	[[File:Colombia - Casanare - Aguazul.svg	100px	center]]
Tauramena	Casanare	460	[[File:Colombia - Casanare - Tauramena.svg	100px	center]]
Recetor
(shared with Tegua)	Casanare	800	[[File:Colombia - Casanare - Recetor.svg	100px	center]]
Chámeza
(shared with Tegua)	Casanare	1150	[[File:Colombia - Casanare - Chámeza.svg	100px	center]]
Paya	Boyacá	970	[[File:Colombia - Boyaca - Paya.svg	100px	center]]
Labranzagrande
(shared with U'wa & Guahibo)	Boyacá	1210	[[File:Colombia - Boyaca - Labranzagrande.svg	100px	center]]

Culture

Achagua people live in large villages. Clans live together in communal houses. Polygamy is commonplace. They farm crops, such as bitter cassava. They traditionally poison their arrows with curare.

Language

Achagua people speak the Achagua language, a Maipurean Arawakan language.

References

[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/3458/Achagua "Achagua."] ''Encyclopædia Britannica.'' (retrieved 1 December 2011)
James Stuart Olson (1991), ''The Indians of Central and South America: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary'', [[Greenwood Publishing Group]]. p2

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