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The chiquitano people is probably the most numerous Indigenous people of Eastern Bolivia, with estimated 40,000 and 60,000 individuals. Studies about the Chiquitano in Brazil are incipient and were carried out in the specific context of a survey carried out because of the construction of the Brazil-Bolivia Gas Pipeline through their area. Indications are that the Chiquitano in Brazil are some 2,000, not counting those who live in the urban areas of the municipalities mentioned above, who have not been counted.

Joana Aparecida Fernandes Silva
Ph.D. professor in the Department of Anthropology ICHS/UFMT (Instituto de Ciências Humanas e Sociais da Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso)
and of the Department of Social Sciences of the UFG (Universidade Federal de Goiás)
bfmaia@zaz.com.br

José Eduardo Moreira da Costa
Specialist in Social Anthropology and Indigenist of Funai/Cuiabá
theoedu@zaz.com.br

 
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