Parima Tapirapeco National Park
Like other native American cultures in the lowland of South America see also Waraos nature as animate to. Shamans can contact to animals, as well as ghost, to use them for their own purposes. So, help spirits will be asked, for example, to the healing of diseases. Pemon Indians waiting on Chiricavai in Canaima In the South-East of Venezuela Pemon Indians you have their home. The majority of them, about 30,000 people live in the State of Bolivar, Canaima and the Highlands of Guyana.
Some of the Pemon inhabit the neighboring Brazilian State of Roraima. The ethnic group is subdivided into further groups, among which the Taurepan, Arekuna, and Kamarakoto. Their villages are often difficult to reach, because they are mostly in the Interior of the country and are only accessible by branches of the Orinoco. Until today, the Pemon have preserved their culture and are still passionate breeders and hunters. In addition they address agriculture, to feed their families. Their villages are characterized by structures made of clay, which are covered by palm leaves. The earned income flows in a Community Fund, which is used for the purchase of goods such as tools and coffee.
According to the belief of the Pemon, they owe their culture of the deity Chiricavai, which should be returned after a stay on Earth to the stars and sometime with them on Earth will reappear. Striking body jewelry in the National Park Parima Tapirapeco the Yanomami Indians deep in the South of Venezuela, in the State of Amazonas is the Parima Tapirapeco National Park. The largest national park of the country protects not only the headwaters of the Orinoco River, the Evergreen lowland forests and dense mountain forests, but also the resident Yanomami Indians. They are the largest indigenous group in the Amazon region with approximately 35,000 people. They earn their livelihood with plantains, eating bananas and cassava, which are grown on vast fields. If arable lands are no longer suitable for cultivation, the people move on. As food, birds, armadillos, tapirs and woolly also serve the Yanomami. This ethnic group is famous especially for her eye-catching jewelry, is the part of a century-old tradition. The lips, as well as the nasal septum are pierced at a young age. Then arrow bars are used. Women wear maximum three symmetrically arranged jewelry pins in their lower lip, while males used mostly a bar in the middle. Jewelry on your ears is also widely used for the Yanomami. Nicky Richter
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