at the Chamacoco Community primary school


Mision de Santa Teresita is a Salesian mission that host several families of Chamacoco indigenous people, here's the elementary school: teachers and pupils. Teachers showing artcrafts made with palm leaves fibers. Chamacoco is a Zamucoan language spoken in Paraguay and maybe Brazil. It is also known as Ishiro and Jewyo. It is spoken by a traditionally hunter-gatherer society that has now turned to agriculture. Its speakers are of all ages, and generally do not speak Spanish or Guarani well. [source: Wikipedia] Fuerte Olimpo, formerly Fuerte Borbon, it's a city in Alto Paraguay, along the Paraguay river and facing the Pantanal on the Brazilian coast. Can be reached from Concepcion with a 2 days boat sail or 20 hours bus ride.


Size: 5200px × 3667px
Location: Chamacoco Community, Fuerte Olimpo, Paraguay
Photo credit: © Michele Molinari / Alamy / Afripics
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