Indigenous peoples in Colombia

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Indigenous peoples in Colombia (Spanish: Pueblos indígenas en Colombia), also known as Native Colombians (Spanish: Colombianos nativos), are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas whose ancestors lived in Colombia before the 16th-century Spanish colonization of Colombia. Estimates of the percentage of Colombians who are Indigenous vary, from 3% or 1.5 million to 10% or 5 million. According to the 2018 Colombian census, they comprise 4.4% of the country's population, belonging to 115 different tribal nations, up from 3.4% in the 2005 Colombian census. However, a Latinobarómetro survey from the year 2024 found that 75 people or 7.1% of Colombian respondents self-identified as Indigenous. The percentage of Indigenous peoples has been growing since an all-time low of 1965, where it was estimated only 1% of Colombians were Indigenous. Approximately two-thirds of the registered Indigenous peoples live in La Guajira, Cauca, Nariño, Córdoba and Sucre Departments. More than 70 distinct Indigenous...

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