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Urarina

1650 – present
Native nationSouth America

The 'people from below' of the blackwater Chambira, speakers of an unrelated language with rare object-verb-subject grammar, weavers of golden chambira-palm hammocks.

Kept apart by the remoteness of their flooded forest and by choice; debt-bondage to patrons scarred them, yet ~3,000 still speak Urarina vigorously along the Chambira and Urituyacu.

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

The atlas holds 2 border frames for Urarina — the shape you scrub through changes in 1650 · 1701.

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