Andoque

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Andoque (alternate name Andoke) are an indigenous people of Colombia. They live along the Aduche tributary of the Japurá River.

[edit] Language and culture

Their language is an isolate and is extinct in Peru.[1] The culture values "sacred plants" and a ritual called "Yuruparí." The "Yuruparí" ritual concerns their transcendent vision of cosmology.[2]

[edit] Web sources

  1. ^ Ethnologue
  2. ^ Etnias de Colombia