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    The Motilones-Barí, sometimes also called Barís, Motilones «or for its singular: Motilón» or Dobocubis, are an indigenous people who live in the Catatumbo...
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    Barí is a Chibchan language spoken in Northwestern South America by the Barí (Motilon). Barí has six vowels: /i, e, a, ɨ, o, u/. All vowels have nasalized...
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    revolutionary justice system, and found him guilty of exploiting the Motilones. He was condemned to die, and his execution was planned. On July 6, 1989...
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  • Olson, telling the story of his work as a Christian missionary with the Motilone Barí people, an indigenous tribe in Colombia and Venezuela. The book begins...
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    and Colombia (Cesar Department). Included in the range are the Sierra Motilones, Sierra Valledupar, and Sierra Oca. The highest point is Cerro de Las...
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  • has its source on the eastern slope of the serranía de Los Motilones, in the Catatumbo Barí Natural Park (extreme north of the Norte de Santander Department...
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    Kali'na (34,000), Pemon (30,000), Anu͂ (21,000), Huottüja (15,000), Motilone Barí, Ye'kuana and Yaruro. Around 13 000 BCE human settlement in the actual...
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    site known as Naked Santurbán and becomes the Mountainous area of the Motilones. On the other hand, the plains of the Catatumbo and Zulia Rivers are located...
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    Perijá mountain range comprises five large landscape units: Sierra de Motilones, Sierra de Perijá, Sierra de Valledupar, Montes de Oca and the foothills...
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    the Province of New Mérida on 9 September 1630. The resistance of the Motilones indigenous group towards the whites who were taking over and controlling...
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