Indigenous tribe: Emberá

Language


Who are they?

Ubication

they are an Amerindian people Embera_Chami

Colombian indigenous group item-14


inhabits some areas of the Pacific coast and adjacent areas of Colombia utria_colombia_mapa

they speak the Waunaan language. 250px-Mujeres_de_la_etnia_Emberá

northwest of Ecuador.

east of Panama


they are accustomed to call embera. There are those who believe that the word Emberá literally means: "The people of the corn". 1200px-Panama_-_Embera-Wounaan.svg

Emberá Katío is known to those who live in the upper Sinú, the upper Río San Jorge (department of Córdoba) and Urabá


they are called éperara siapidaara and live in the province of Esmeraldas, specifically in the canton Eloy Alfaro, Borbón parish and the basins of the Cayapas and Santiago rivers. m14508

they are called Emberá chamí to those who live in the western and central mountain ranges of the Colombian Andes, departments of Antioquia, Caldas, Risaralda, Quindío and Valle

Chocoes or simply Emberá are called to those that inhabit the basins of the Baudó river and of the low San Juan, municipalities of Istmina, Alto Baudó and Pizarro


The Embera language has numerous geographical variants, all of them together with the language of the Wounaan, belong to the Choco linguistic family. 1251450960_869000_1251454980_noticia_normal


The embera is an agglutinating and ergative language that privileges the vision of the object (or patient) of the verb 38638_1

Activities

they have practiced agriculture since ancient times

corn

banana

rice

yucca

they practice hunting and fishing

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Culture

The Emberá conserve great part of:

oral tradition

celebration of rituals

your own thought

In its ceremonies it uses beverages like pilde or borrachero, to communicate with the spirits

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the cosmovision of them say that the world is divided into three underworlds

the real buzzards

the intermediate world where Trutuika and other spirits are found as the mother of water

The world above where the spirits of the dead dwell.

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Total population

the population of Embera is 68,000 people

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