Cabécar people
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The Cabécar are an Indigenous group of the remote Talamanca region of eastern Costa Rica. They speak Cabécar, a language belonging to the Chibchan language family of the Isthmo-Colombian Area of lower
A traditional Cabécar dwelling
Slash-and-burn agriculture
Bribri people
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The Bribri are an Indigenous people in eastern Costa Rica and northern Panama. Today, most Bribri people speak the Bribri language or Spanish.
Cabécar people
…Rica and Panama. From there, Chibchan linguistic groups migrated and settled as far north as eastern Honduras and as far south as Colombia. Today the Bribri and Cabécar Indigenous groups are known collectively as the Talamanca. The term Talamanca is not Indigenous; it was adopted in the early 17th century…
Bribri palenque (traditional house) in Talamanca, Costa Rica.
The Talamanca Mountain Range from the ground
A banana plantation
Cacao tree and ceremonial house, Yorkin indigenous community, Talamanca, Costa Rica.