Moxeño people

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The Moxeño people are an indigenous Arawakan-speaking group of Bolivia known for their traditional communal lifestyles, rich ceremonial music and dance, and long history in the lowland regions of the country.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Moxeño people canonical 5
Chácobo people 1
Mosetén people 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (43)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnic group
indigenous people
associatedWith Jesuit Missions of Moxos
colonialExperience Jesuit evangelization
mission settlements
continent South America
country Bolivia
culturalContinuity preservation of Arawakan language
preservation of communal festivals
preservation of ritual dances
culturalHeritage festive costumes
processional dances
ritual music ensembles
demographicStatus minority group in Bolivia
environment floodplain forests
tropical savanna
ethnicity Arawak
surface form: Arawakan people
hasSubgroup Ignaciano Moxeño
Javeriano Moxeño
Ignaciano Moxeño
surface form: Loretano Moxeño

Moxeño
surface form: Trinitario Moxeño
historicalRegion Moxos
knownFor ceremonial dance
ceremonial music
languageFamily Arawakan languages
musicInstrument drums
flutes
maracas
nativeLanguage Moxeño language
partOf indigenous peoples of Bolivia
region Beni Department
Bolivian Amazon
surface form: Bolivian lowlands

Santa Cruz Department
religion Roman Catholicism
traditional indigenous beliefs
ritualPractice Catholic–indigenous syncretism
traditionalEconomy agriculture
fishing
gathering
hunting
traditionalHousing communal houses
traditionalLifestyle communal living
uses communal land tenure

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Beni hasIndigenousGroup Moxeño people
Beni hasIndigenousGroup Moxeño people
this entity surface form: Chácobo people
Moxeño spokenBy Moxeño people
Moxeño ethnicGroup Moxeño people
Beni Department hasEthnicGroups Moxeño people
Bolivian Amazon inhabitedBy Moxeño people
this entity surface form: Mosetén people