FUNDACION UNIVERSITARIA JUAN DE CASTELLANOS

MONICA JULIETH AREVALO MORALES

INGLES 4

INDIGENAS TUCANS

1. Where have the indigenous community been living?

- The Tucano has been living on the Vaupés River, on the border with the departments of
Guainía and Vichada and on the Papurí and Paca rivers, on the border with the neighboring
Republic of Brazil. They are also found in the headwaters of the rivers Unilla, Utía and Pacoa,
department of Vaupés.
- Although, they currently have been living in single-family houses grouped in sidewalks, in
some communities there are malokas that function as meeting places of a political and
cultural nature.
FUNDACION UNIVERSITARIA JUAN DE CASTELLANOS
MONICA JULIETH AREVALO MORALES
INGLES 4

2. What kind of language does the indigenous community speak?

- Tucano´s community belongs to the Eastern Tucano linguistic family. The sociolinguistic
survey applied by the Ministry of Culture to these two indigenous groups of Vaupés resulted
in 81% (1,618) of the Tucanos and 97% (1,238) of the Cubans speaking their native language.
FUNDACION UNIVERSITARIA JUAN DE CASTELLANOS
MONICA JULIETH AREVALO MORALES
INGLES 4

3. What types of food has the indigenous community grown?

- They have grown in the garden together “yuca Brava”, corn, sweet potato, yam, “chonque”,
“chontaduro”, banana, sugar cane, papaya, pineapple, coca and chili.
FUNDACION UNIVERSITARIA JUAN DE CASTELLANOS
MONICA JULIETH AREVALO MORALES
INGLES 4

4. What have been the beliefs of the community?

- The community have believed is spiritualists, although their religious thoughts are changing
them for Christianity in its different forms of evangelization.
FUNDACION UNIVERSITARIA JUAN DE CASTELLANOS
MONICA JULIETH AREVALO MORALES
INGLES 4

5. What type of clothing has worked in the community?

- The Tucans´ costumes are characterized because the woman wears a flowery midriff skirt
and a white blouse with indigenous belts and their respective collars; The man wears
fisherman suits, white pants and colorful shirt with indigenous necklaces.
FUNDACION UNIVERSITARIA JUAN DE CASTELLANOS
MONICA JULIETH AREVALO MORALES
INGLES 4

6. What sports has the community practiced?

- This indigenous community has practice music and dance.
FUNDACION UNIVERSITARIA JUAN DE CASTELLANOS
MONICA JULIETH AREVALO MORALES
INGLES 4

7. what have been the Colombian community dons to survive nowadays?

The indigenous Tucanos are important for Colombia because they are one of the few
communities that have maintained their cultures and traditions, such as their traditional
dress, their dances and music. They are also important because they have maintained
their translation language that is not Spanish, it is Tucano and that is not to leave their
identity aside.