Arhuacos girl Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Colombia South America
The Arhuacos live in the upper valleys of the Piedras River, San Sebastian river, Chichicua River, Ariguani River and Guatapuri River, in an Indian Reservation in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta Mountains. Their traditional territory before the spanish colonialism, was larger than today's boundaries which excludes many of their sacred sites, but that they continue to visit today, to pay offerings. . Arhuacos main economic activity is subsistence agriculture, which traditionally was practiced by every family in the community in their own parcel by their houses. Each family owned two houses, one in the high lands where weather is cooler and another in the warmer lower lands of the mountains. Nowadays they can only practice this on the higher lands due to expropriation of land during the Spanish colonization
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