 Guahibo in Venezuela playing a siku | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| approx. 24,000 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Colombia | 23,006 (2005 Census)Juncosa 2000, cited in SIL, "Guahibo", Ethnologue. |
 Venezuela | 8,428 (2001 census)SIL, "Guahibo", Ethnologue. |
| Languages | |
| Guahibo, Colombian Spanish, Venezuelan Spanish | |
| Religion | |
| Animism, Catholicism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Achagua, Guayupe, Hiwi, Tegua, U'wa | |
The Guahibo (also called Guajibo, or Sikuani, though the latter is regarded as derogatory[citation needed]) people are an indigenous people native to the Llanos or savanna plains in eastern Colombia (Arauca, Meta, Guainia, and Vichada departments) and in southern Venezuela near the Colombian border.[1] Their population was estimated at 23,772 people in 1998.[2]
A related group, sometimes considered a sub-tribe of the Guahibo, are the Playero, whose population, estimated in the early 1980s at 200 people, live along the Arauca River.[3]
- ^ "{{in lang|es}} Ministerio Colombiano del Medio Ambiente: Guahibo". Archived from the original on 2007-10-26. Retrieved 2007-04-01.
- ^ ethnologue: Guahibo
- ^ Olson, James Stuart (1991). The Indians of Central and South America: An Ethnohistorical Dictionary. p. 297. ISBN 9780313263873.