Guayupe

Guayupe
Landscape in Acacías, terrain of the Guayupe
Total population
250,000[1] (1537)
Regions with significant populations
Meta,  Colombia
Languages
Arawakan, Colombian Spanish
Religion
Traditional religion, Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Guahibo, Muisca, Sutagao, Tegua, U'wa
Map of pre-Columbian civilizations. The Guayupe lived east of the Muisca
Coca was used by the Guayupe in their rituals

The Guayupe are an Arawak-speaking[2] indigenous group of people in modern-day Colombia. They inhabit the westernmost parts of the department of Meta.[3] At the time of the Spanish conquest, more than 250,000 Guayupe were living in large parts of Meta.[1][4]

The territories of the Guayupe stretched from the neighbouring Guahibo terrains to the east and north and the Muisca territories to the west over an area of 22,000 square kilometres (8,500 sq mi).[5]

Knowledge of the Guayupe has been provided by Pedro de Aguado and others.

  1. ^ a b Ruíz Churión, 2010
  2. ^ (in Spanish) Description Guayupe Archived 2020-09-26 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Díaz Moreno, 2012, p.171
  4. ^ Díaz Moreno, 2012, p.174
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference Llanero was invoked but never defined (see the help page).