Aguano people

The Aguano are a small indigenous tribe living in eastern Peru. They live mainly in the Amazon lowlands along the rivers Huallaga and Samiria. Today's highly acculturated Aguano, today they speak Spanish and have adopted the Roman Catholic faith, live mainly from fishing and the cultivation of cassava and maize.

The traditional language of Aguano belongs to the indigenous Pano linguistic group.

Swell

  • Josef Good: The Great Encyclopedia of peoples. Comet, Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-89836-580-8
  • James Stuart Olson: The Indians of Central and South America: An ethnohistorical dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1991, ISBN 0313263876th p 6f
  • Ethnicity in Peru
  • Indigenous people in South America
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