News of this people
- UFRR oferece 150 vagas para indígenas
14/05/2012 - Mobilização dos povos da terra indígena Raposa Serra do Sol: "Maio de luta e luto" - Justiça já - basta de impunidade
14/05/2012 - FAB mapeia e destrói pistas na Amazônia
09/05/2012
Inhabited lands
- Yanomami
Yanomami
- Other names
Yanoama, Yanomani, Ianomami - Where they are
RR/AM
Venezuela - How many
19.338 (DSEI Yanomami - Sesai, 2011)
16.000 (2009) - Linguistic family
Yanomami
The Yanomami and their land
The Yanomami comprise a society of hunter-agriculturists of the tropical rainforest of Northern Amazonia, whose contact with non-indigenous society over the most part of their territory has been relatively recent. Their territory covers an area of approximately 192,000 km2, located on both sides of the border between Brazil and Venezuela, in the Orinoco-Amazon interfluvial region (affluents of the right shore of the Rio Branco and left shore of the Rio Negro). They make up a culturo-linguistic group composed of at least four adjacent subgroups who speak languages of the same family (Yanomae, Yanõmami, Sanima and Ninam). The total population of the Yanomami in Brazil and Venezuela is today estimated to be around 26,000 people.
In Brazil, the Yanomami population numbers 12,795 people, split into 228 communities (National Health Foundation Census 1999). The Yanomami Indigenous Territory, which covers 9,664,975 ha (96,650 km2) of tropical forest is recognized for its importance in terms of protecting Amazonia's biodiversity and was ratified by Presidential decree on 25th May 1992.
