Yarigui People
Yariguí language, one of the Carib languages
The Yariguí 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.
Read more about Yarigui People: Territory, Language and Culture, History, Population Decline
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