Close kin and allies of the Charrúa who ranged the eastern hills and the Negro toward the Atlantic, trading and raiding across the porous Spanish–Portuguese frontier.
Worn down by colonial cattle frontiers and missions through the 1700s and largely merged with the Charrúa, sharing in the destruction that followed Salsipuedes; their Güenoa tongue went unrecorded into extinction.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Minuán (Guenoa) — the shape you scrub through changes in 50 BC · 1607 · 1750.
Describes the Minuán (Guenoa), close kin of the Charrúa, ranging the eastern hills and the Negro across the Spanish-Portuguese frontier.
Background on the colonial cattle frontier that wore down and merged the Minuán with the Charrúa (broad context).