COLOMBIAN

INDIGENIOU
S GROUP English IV
Sneyder esteban Mahecha nieto
 Tanimuka “la gente ceniza”

Also known as Ufania, Taniboka and Opaima, they

are an indigenous group located in the department of
Amazonas, on the Apaporis, Guacayá and Oiyaká-
Mirití rivers. Most of the population is located in the
Yaigojé reservation, Apaporis River and share their
territory with the communities of the Mirití-Paraná
 Population
Its population reaches 342 people according to the
Dane census in 2005. Its population is distributed as
follows: 177 men and 165 women, 47 of them are in
urban areas and 295 in rural contexts. The
municipalities with the highest concentration of this
population are La Pedrera Amazonas, Taraira
Vaupés and Leticia Amazonas.
 History
The first references to this group are found in the
maps of eighteenth-century travelers, who placed
them alongside the Yurí in the lower Apaporis. Like
other groups in the area, their history has been
linked to the different extractive booms experienced
by the region during the first decades of the 20th
century and, in recent times, to the processes of
colonization and integration into the market
economy.
 CUlture
The Tanimuka and other Mirití peoples are groups of patrilineal
and patrilocal descent. They are described as being born of one
ancestor (different for each group) and each is the bearer of a
"specialization". This term refers to the knowledge received
from "the origin"; the Yahúna are said to be respected warriors;
the Letuama specialists in ritual chants and the Tanimuka
specialists in shamanism and healing through thought. The
Tanimuka have only one dance of their own and nowadays all
their dances have been adapted from the Yukuna. And just like
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