The Warao

The Warao and culture as old in Venezuela is estimated that owns about 3,500 years. They belong to philum linguistic unknown and many anthropologists and linguists have been assigned to various linguistic systems, and among them, some as distant and remote as the Maya Mesomérica.

Others claim that they are Macro-Chibchas in the Andean region of Colombia. The Warao, are "people of water," living in the great Orinoco River Delta, and its territory of about 20,000 square kilometers, is 80% water and vegetation of the area is suitable for thousands of years, the rise getting water as the tide of the Atlantic Ocean that rises and falls every 8 hours.

With deforestation carried out through destructive policies of their environment, many Warao have left their territory, and now many of them are doing the role of beggars in the cities of Caracas, Ciudad Bolivar, Pto Ordaz, San Félix y Pto La cruz.

Fragment of the text "culture Warao, survival and struggle" for Ronny Velasquez