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The Yanomami comprise a society of hunter-agriculturists
of the tropical rainforest of Northern Amazonia, whose
contact with non-indigenous society over the most part
of their territory has been relatively recent. Their territory
covers an area of approximately 192,000 km2, located on
both sides of the border between Brazil and Venezuela,
in the Orinoco-Amazon interfluvial region (affluents of
the right shore of the Rio Branco and left shore of the
Rio Negro). They make up a culturo-linguistic group composed
of at least four adjacent subgroups who speak languages
of the same family (Yanomae, Yanõmami,
Sanima and Ninam). The total population
of the Yanomami in Brazil and Venezuela is today estimated
to be around 26,000 people.
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In Brazil, the Yanomami population numbers 12,795
people, split into 228 communities (National Health Foundation
Census 1999). The Yanomami Indigenous Territory, which
covers 9,664,975 ha (96,650 km2) of tropical forest is
recognized for its importance in terms of protecting Amazonia's
biodiversity and was ratified by Presidential decree on
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01:: Aerial view of Demini village (Roraima)
photo: Carlo Zacquini, 1998
02:: detail of the Balaú maloca (Amazonas)
photo: Carlo Zacquini, 1994 |
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