Guahibo people

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Guahibo
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, Spanish

Religion

Christianity, Animism

The Guahibo people (also called Guajibo, or Sikuani, though the latter is regarded as derogatory) people are an indigenous people native to Llanos or savannah plains in eastern Colombia–Arauca, Meta, Guainia, and Vichada departments–and in southern Venezuela near the Colombian border.[1] Their population is was estimated at 23,772 people in 1998.[2]

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