Bracamoros

Map of the Chinchipe/Marañón region with modern borders.

Bracamoros (Quechua: pukamuru, Aguaruna: pakamuru,[1] "painted face"; also written Pacamuros)[2] is a region of numerous extinct tribal groups (which include a tribe of the same name) from the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon rainforest, located in the watershed of the Zamora River (although it has also been identified as the region of the Chinchipe and Marañón Rivers).[2]

The area is now part of the former Ecuadorian province of Santiago Zamora Province [es] (today Zamora-Chinchipe Province) and the Peruvian provinces of San Ignacio and Jaén, within the departments of Cajamarca and Amazonas.[2]

  1. ^ Peru: A Chronicle of Deception: Attempts to Transfer the Awajún Border Territory in the Cordillera Del Cóndor to the Mining Industry. International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. 2010. p. 14. ISBN 9788791563737.
  2. ^ a b c Espinoza Soriano, Waldemar (1973). "Los grupos étnicos en la cuenca del Chuquimayo, siglos 15 y 16". Institut Français d'Études Andines: 19–73.