Guahibo people

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Guahibo
Total population

approx. 24,000

Regions with significant populations
Flag of Colombia Colombia 23,006 (2005 Census) Juncosa 2000, cited in SIL, "Guahibo", Ethnologue.
Flag of Venezuela Venezuela 8,428 (2001 census) SIL, "Guahibo", Ethnologue.
Languages
Guahibo, Spanish
Religions
Christianity, Animism

The Guahibo people (also called Guajibo, or Sikuani, though the latter is regarded as derogatory) people are an indigenous people native to Llanos or savannah plains in eastern Colombia--Arauca, Meta, Guainia, and Vichada departments--and in southern Venezuela near the Colombian border.[1] Their population is was estimated at 23,772 people in 1998.[2]

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