Yarigui People

Yarigui People

YariguĂ­ language, one of the Carib languages

The YariguĂ­ people were an indigenous Colombian tribe that gave their name to a mountainous area they once inhabited in the Andean cloud forest. It has been said that they committed mass suicide instead of submitting to Spanish colonial rule.

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