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Barasana people
Barasana (alternate names ''Barazana'', Panenua'', ''Pareroa'', or ''Taiwano is an exonym applied to an Amazonian people, considered distinct from the Taiwano, though the dialect of the latter is almost identical to that of the Barasana, and outside observers can detect only minute differences between the two languages.〔Stephen Hugh-Jones, ''The Palm and the Pleiades,'' p.23〕〔Christine Jones,''From the Milk River.''p.12.〕 They are a Tucanoan group located in the eastern part of the Amazon Basin in Vaupés Department in Colombia and Amazonas State in Brazil. As of 2000 there were at least 500 Barasanas in Colombia, though some recent estimates place the figure as high as 1950.〔Determining their exact number is difficult, because inclusion in the group is determined by one’s father’s language. The figure of 500 refers to this Vaupés group, and excludes people whose mother language is Barasana.〕〔See 〕〔For the figure of 1950 see , and 〕 A further 40 live on the Brazilian side, in the municipalities of Japurá and São Gabriel da Cachoeira.
The Barasana refers to themselves as the ''jebá.~baca'', or people of the jaguar (''Jebá'' "jaguar" is their mythical ancestor).
==Geography, ecology==
Barasana territory lies in the central sector of the Colombian Northwest Amazon. The Barasana inhabit the Pirá-piraná river basin of the Comiseria de Vaupés between the two main river systems of the Vaupés River and the Japurá River . The area is a tropical rainforest, interspersed with occasional stands of Mauritia flexuosa or mirití palm and savanna with xerophytic vegetation. Rainfall averages around per year.〔pp.18-19〕〔Jean Elizabeth Jackson, ‘Language Identity of the Vaupés Indians,’ p.50〕
Its climate is marked by four seasons, a long dry spell from December to March followed by the wet season from March to August, a short dry season between August and September, followed by a rainy season from September until December. The average temperature varies between 20 and 30 degrees Celsius (68 and 86 °F).〔 It is notorious for its treacherous rivers that are choked with dangerous rapids and falls. The number of faunal species is not rich, and individual animals not common, though hunting game is prized as the fundamentally male mode of procuring food. Fish also, despite the many rivers, do not abound.〔 For a list of edible foods and animals in the Vaupés area see pp. 11-14, and Appendix 3, pp. 274-5〕
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