Igara-Paraná River region

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The Igara-Paraná River region is an area of the northwestern Amazon rainforest that forms part of the ancestral homeland of the Huitoto (Witoto) Indigenous people.

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Surface form Occurrences
Igaraparaná River region 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geographical region
river basin region
associatedEthnicGroup Bora people NERFINISHED
Huitoto people NERFINISHED
Muinane people NERFINISHED
Ocaina people NERFINISHED
biome humid tropical forest
borderedBy Putumayo River region NERFINISHED
country Colombia
culturalRegionFor Huitoto ceremonial dances and chants
maloca-based communal housing traditions
traditional coca and tobacco use in ritual contexts
drainedBy Igara-Paraná River NERFINISHED
ecosystemType tropical rainforest
governedUnder Indigenous resguardo (reserve) regimes in parts of the area
hasBiodiversity high Amazonian species richness
hasClimate equatorial climate
hasCulturalSignificanceFor Huitoto cosmology NERFINISHED
Huitoto origin myths
hasHydrology network of blackwater and whitewater streams
hasLandUse hunting and gathering
shifting cultivation
small-scale fishing
historicallyAffectedBy Amazon rubber boom NERFINISHED
Casa Arana rubber enterprise NERFINISHED
indigenousHomelandOf Huitoto people NERFINISHED
Witoto people NERFINISHED
knownFor severe abuses against Indigenous peoples during the rubber boom
languageRegionOf Witotoan languages NERFINISHED
locatedIn Amazon Basin NERFINISHED
Colombia NERFINISHED
Loreto Department (historical region of Colombia) NERFINISHED
South America
northwestern Amazon rainforest NERFINISHED
partOf Colombian Amazon NERFINISHED
Putumayo River basin NERFINISHED
Upper Amazon region NERFINISHED
interfluvial area between Caquetá and Putumayo rivers
recognizedAs ancestral territory of Huitoto people
threatenedBy deforestation
loss of Indigenous territories
resource extraction
transportMode fluvial transport by canoe and riverboats
tributaryOf Putumayo River NERFINISHED
usedFor traditional agroforestry systems
vegetationType evergreen lowland rainforest

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Huitoto people hasPopulationIn Igara-Paraná River region
this entity surface form: Igaraparaná River region
Huitoto (Witoto) traditionalTerritory Igara-Paraná River region
subject surface form: Huitoto