The 'boat people' of the Orinoco delta, living among the channels in stilt-houses over the tide, master canoe-builders who hollow great dugouts from the cachicamo tree.
Among the oldest peoples of Venezuela and speakers of a language isolate, the Warao endured the delta's labyrinth that few outsiders dared enter; today they are Venezuela's second-largest Indigenous people, near 49,000, though now scattered by migration into Brazil and the Caribbean.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Warao (Boat People) — the shape you scrub through changes in 5000 BC · 1926.
Wilbert's deep documentation of Warao oral literature and culture in the Orinoco delta.
Broad regional history of the Amazon/Orinoco peoples.
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