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    The Wayuu (also Wayu, Wayúu, Guajiro, Wahiro) are an Indigenous ethnic group of the Guajira Peninsula in northernmost Colombia and northwest Venezuela...
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    Wayuu (Wayuu: Wayuunaiki [waˈjuːnaiki]), or Guajiro, is a major Arawakan language spoken by 400,000 indigenous Wayuu people in northwestern Venezuela...
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    Patricia Velásquez (category Venezuelan people of Wayuu descent)
    fifth of six children of a mestizo father and a mother of the indigenous Wayuu people. Velásquez's parents were both teachers, and her father, who also worked...
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    population of 49,271 people in Venezuela during the 2011 census, they were the second largest indigenous group after the Wayuu people. They speak an agglutinative...
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    Luis Díaz (footballer, born 1997) (category Wayuu people)
    22-man squad for the 2015 Copa Americana de Pueblos Indígenas, due to his Wayuu ethnicity. After impressing during the tournament, he joined the senior...
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    Teotihuacan) Totonac religion (Totonac people) Powhatan religion (Powhatan people) Wayuu religion (Wayuu people) Yupik religion (Yupik of Alaska and Eastern...
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  • Huya (mythology) (category Wayuu people)
    Huya (in Wayuu: Juyá, pronounced [huˈja]) is the name of the rain god of the Wayuu people of Venezuela and Colombia. The minor planet 38628 Huya is named...
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    Soler y Royo in an attempt to "civilize" the Wayuu people. The friars the created the orphanages for Wayuu children beginning with the La Sierrita orphanage...
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    Lido Pimienta (category Wayuu people)
    Pimienta. Pimienta identifies as queer. She is of mixed Afro-Colombian and Wayuu descent. She is a single parent. Color (2010) La Papessa (2016) Miss Colombia...
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    La Guajira Department (category Articles containing Wayuu-language text)
    settlement as the village of Riohacha, as a result of constant attacks by the Wayuu people. In 1544, it was moved to the site of the present-day city. In 1871,...
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