Embera men using a hand axe to carve and shape a cayuco. Embera indigenous people hollow out a tree trunk to build and form this kind of wooden canoe.


Embera indian men using an axe to carve and shape a cayuco. Embera indigenous people hollow out a tree trunk to build and form a kind of wooden canoe called cayuco. In the Republic of Panama, a cayuco is a vessel carved from the trunk of a tree, used mainly by the indigenous people of this country to navigate the rivers, lakes or sea.


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Location: Embera Puru indigenous community, Panama.
Photo credit: © Víctor Santamaría González / Alamy / Afripics
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