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Cofan
The Cofan (Ai) people are an indigenous people native to Napo Province northeast Ecuador and southern Colombia, between the Guamues River (a tributary of the Putumayo River) and the Aguarico River (a tributary of the Napo River). Their population is only 1,500 people, down from approximately 15,000 in the mid-16th century. They speak the Cofan language or A'ingae a language of the Chibchan family. The ancestral land, community health and social cohesion of Cofan communities in Ecuador has been severely damaged by several decades of oil drilling. However, reorganization, campaigning for land rights, and direct action against encroaching oil installations ...
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