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Bora & Andoke

1900 – present
Native nationSouth America

Manguaré drum-talkers of the middle Caquetá, the Bora signalling across the forest on great slit-gongs while the neighbouring Andoke held a language unrelated to any other.

Decimated alongside the Witoto in the Putumayo rubber terror — populations cut to a tenth — the Bora and Andoke fled across the Caquetá; both survive as small peoples in Colombia and Peru, the Andoke down to a few hundred speakers and the Bora relocated largely to the Peruvian Ampiyacu.

Borders in 2026 · drawn from 1 sourced border frame
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