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Shuar

800 – present
Native nationSouth America

The famously unconquered headhunters of the Upano and Zamora valleys, who turned slain enemies' heads into tsantsa to trap the avenging soul.

Repelled the Inca, the Spanish (whom they annihilated in the 1599 Jívaro uprising), and the rubber men alike; today some 110,000 strong in Morona-Santiago and Zamora-Chinchipe, organized in the militant Shuar Federation.

Borders in 2026 · drawn from 3 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 3 border frames for Shuar — the shape you scrub through changes in 800 · 1549 · 1600.

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