Guahibo people
The Guahibo (also called Guajibo, or Sikuani, though the latter is regarded as derogatory) people are an indigenous people native to the Llanos or savanna plains in eastern Colombia (Arauca, Meta, Guainia, and Vichada departments) and in southern Venezuela near the Colombian border. Their population was estimated at 23,772 people in 1998.
Guahibo in Venezuela playing a siku | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| approx. 24,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Colombia | 23,006 (2005 Census)Juncosa 2000, cited in SIL, "Guahibo", Ethnologue. |
| Venezuela | 8,428 (2001 census)SIL, "Guahibo", Ethnologue. |
| Languages | |
| Guahibo, Colombian Spanish, Venezuelan Spanish | |
| Religion | |
| Animism, Catholicism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Achagua, Guayupe, Hiwi, Tegua, U'wa | |
A related group, sometimes considered a sub-tribe of the Guahibo, are the Playero, whose population, estimated in the early 1980s at 200 people, live along the Arauca River.
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