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{{Short description|Indigenous people in Colombia}}
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The '''Cubeo''' are an ethnic group of the [[Department of Vaupés|Vaupés]] Department ([[Colombia]]). Cubeo is a generic name that is used in local [[Spanish language|Spanish]] and appears in the literature in reference to a social and linguistic group. Although the term does not have any meaning in [[Cubeo language|their language]], the Cubeo refer to themselves by that name in interactions with others. There is no common native name, aside from referring to themselves as "people" (''pâmiwâ'') or, more precisely, "my people" (''jiwa''). An individual's social identification is based on his or her adscription to a mythical clan forebear whose name is used as an eponym.

==Location==
The Cubeo live in the area of the [[Vaupés Department]] in Colombia, near the center of the Northwestern Cultural Area of the Amazon. Their villages are distributed along the median course of the capital [[Mitú]] and, above all, alongside its affluents the [[Cuduyari]] and [[Querary]] rivers.

==Population==
Reports of the population vary between 3,000 and 5,000 individuals. The national census of 1985 established the number of inhabitants at 4,368.

==Language==
The [[Cubeo language|language of the Cubeo]] has been classified as belonging to Eastern Tukano. Recently, however, a reclassification has been suggested to Middle Tukano, a subdivision of a possible Proto-Tukano. This language is one of the rare [[Object–verb–subject|OVS]] languages in the world.<ref>[http://wals.info/feature/81 Wals.info]</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
*Goldman, Irving (1963) ''The Cubeo. Indians of the Northwest Amazon''. Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
*Zambrano S., marco Aurelio (1975) ''Los Cubeo. Algunos aspectos de la cultura''. Bogotá: Universidad de Los Andes. {{in lang|es}}

==See also==
*[[Indigenous peoples in Colombia]]
*[[Tucanoan languages]]

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