Emberá people

The indigenous people of the Embera ( Emberá ) lives in Colombia and Panama and belongs to the language family of the Chocó.

In Colombia it is from the following groups:

• Embera del Baudo, Río Atrato, community Juradó, Chocó Department
• Chami, at the headwaters of the Río San Juan, Risaralda, and Río Río Garrapata Sanquinini in the Valle del Cauca, Cristiania and La Sucia, Antioquia
• Cation, northwestern Antioquia, Ituango, and at the headwaters of Rio Sinu and Río Verde in Córdoba
• Eperara - Siapidara, on the Río Saija, Rio López de Micay, Río Cauca and Río El Charco, Río Olaya Herrera in Nariño and the Río Naya, Rio Buenaventura in Valle del Cauca

In the 79 resguardos with an area of ​​1,497,134 ha 71 412 people live. These are distributed to the departments of Antioquia, Caldas, Risaralda, Valle del Cauca, Cauca, Nariño, Putumayo and Caquetá.

In Panama, about 7000 indigenous Embera in the autonomous territory Emberá - Wounaan live. The Embera in Panama is referred to in the speech classification as " Northern Embera ".

The Colombian Constitutional Court prohibited the company Rio Tinto, Sunward and Muriel Mining Corporation, the construction of a mine after it had already come to a militarization of the area and to human rights violations. It leaned on March 9, 2012, the Audit. from. The action of the Embera and Afro - Colombian communities in Jiguamiandó Chocó of 2009 was directed against Muriel Mining. In the course of his Mandé Norte copper - gold-molybdenum project, is involved in the Rio Tino, had failed the Group to consult the affected communities in advance in accordance with law. This principle had already signed August 1991, the Colombian government. An inter-ethnic council ( Consulta de los Pueblos Interétnica ) in 2009 had unanimously rejected the mining projects.