Guahibo people
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The Guahibo people people are an indigenous
people native to Llanos
or savannah plains in eastern Colombia
--Arauca, Meta, Guainia, and Vichada departments--and in southern Venezuela
near the Colombian border. Their population is was estimated at 23,772 people in 1998.
Indigenous peoples of the Americas
The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...
people native to Llanos
Llanos
The Llanos is a vast tropical grassland plain situated to the east of the Andes in Colombia and Venezuela, in northwestern South America. It is an ecoregion of the Flooded grasslands and savannas Biome....
or savannah plains in eastern Colombia
Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...
--Arauca, Meta, Guainia, and Vichada departments--and in southern Venezuela
Venezuela
Venezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
near the Colombian border. Their population is was estimated at 23,772 people in 1998.