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Witoto (Murui-Muina)

1610 – present
Native nationSouth America

People of coca, tobacco and the great communal maloca on the Putumayo side of the divide, whose ceremonial 'word of tobacco and coca' bound clans across the forest.

Targets of the Putumayo genocide: Julio César Arana's rubber company enslaved and killed perhaps 90% of them between 1900 and 1930, scattering survivors to the Caquetá and Amazon; the Murui-Muina rebuilt and number some tens of thousands today in Colombia and Peru.

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

The atlas holds 3 border frames for Witoto (Murui-Muina) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1610 · 1900 · 1931.

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