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Chorote (Iyojwaja)

1690 – present
Native nationSouth America

A small Matacoan nation of the middle Pilcomayo who call themselves yofwaja, hunter-fishers driven from the Bermejo to the river that still defines their world.

Forced from the Bermejo to the Pilcomayo by colonial raids and scattered again by the Chaco War (1932-35), the Chorote settled around evangelical missions; a few thousand endure on both banks of the Pilcomayo in Salta and the Paraguayan Chaco.

Borders in 2026 · drawn from 2 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 2 border frames for Chorote (Iyojwaja) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1690 · 1932.

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