Achuar People

Achuar People

The Achuar are an Amazonian community of some 18,500 individuals along either side of the border in between Ecuador and Peru. As of the early 1970s, the Achuar were one of the last of the Jivaroan groups still generally unaffected by outside contact.

The name Achuar means “the people of the aguaje palm”.

Read more about Achuar People:  Language, Religion and Cosmology, Death, History, Non-Indigenous Influence On Achuar People

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