Indigenous tribe: Emberá
Language
Who are they?
Ubication
they are an Amerindian people
Colombian indigenous group
inhabits some areas of the Pacific coast and adjacent areas of Colombia
they speak the Waunaan language.
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".
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.
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.
The embera is an agglutinating and ergative language that privileges the vision of the object (or patient) of the verb
Activities
they have practiced agriculture since ancient times
corn
banana
rice
yucca
they practice hunting and fishing
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
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.
Total population
the population of Embera is 68,000 people