Pacahuara
Indigenous people in Bolivia
The Pacahuara are an indigenous people of Bolivia. A small group live in Tujuré, a community located near the Chácobo people on the Alto Ivón River in the Beni Department. The group only consists of four contacted people. The fifth, a 57-year-old woman, died on 31 December 2016 in the village of Tujure in the north-east of the country. Another uncontacted group of Pacahuara, with 50 members in eight families, lives between Rio Negro and Río Pacajuaras in the Pando of northeastern Bolivia, near the Brazilian border.
In the past, the tribe had two subgroups: the Sinabu and Capuibo.
Population and "the last Pacahuaras"
The Pacahuara community on the Alto Ivón River began with the efforts of Summer Institute of Linguistics missionaries Guy East and Gilbert Prost to contact the group from 1969 to 1971. The missionaries moved a Pacahuara family, consisting of a man married to two sisters, and their seven children to Puerto Tujuré in Chácobo territory. Since 1974, multiple reports have referred to this family as "the last Pacahuaras." Two children of the family, Bose and Buca married one another but had no children. Several of their siblings married Chácobo spouses and have children as does one sister who married two non-indigenous men and had a child with each.
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