Guane people
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The Guane people of Colombia in South America live mainly in the cities of Santander, Bucaramanga and Barichara. A population estimate made by DANE in 2005, was that around 812 people in Santander ide
Guane doubled-chambered, ceramic, stirrup-spout vessel, 10th–16th century CE, exhibited at Chicamocha National Park
Deformed Guane skull
A wallet made from fique, the fibrous plant that the Guane harvest and use
Museum about the Guane People in Guane, Santader
Chitarero
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The Chitarero were an indigenous Chibcha-speaking people in the Andes of north-eastern Colombia and north-western Venezuela. They were responsible for the death of the German conquistador Ambrosius Eh
Guane people
…named Guanetá by the time the Spanish . The Guane made their own weapons, including arrows and spears. They interchanged plants for the stewpot with the Chitarero on the east and the Muisca to the south of their territories. The mantle making of the Guanes was well known in pre-Columbian Colombia. Mantles made…
A calabash gourd or chitarero in the indigenous language, for which the Spanish named the Chitareros