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Yanomami & Upper-Orinoco Peoples

1000 – present
Native nationSouth America

Deep in the Guiana highlands straddling the Brazil–Venezuela border, the Yanomami remained beyond colonial reach for centuries in great communal shabono houses.

Contacted only in the 20th century and devastated by gold-rush miners and disease; today ~35,000 hold the largest forested indigenous territory on earth, demarcated 1991–92.

Borders in 2026 · drawn from 4 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 4 border frames for Yanomami & Upper-Orinoco Peoples — the shape you scrub through changes in 1000 · 1654 · 1900 · 1991.

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