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According to reports collected and transmitted by the historian Felipe Salvador Gilii missionary, Jesuit, existed in the region now occupied by the State of Amazonas, Aboriginal groups or nations scored right away, information is that it suffers from some flaws, referring to the spelling of names:

Acarianas - Achirigotos - Abacaevas - Arecuna - Arinagotos - Arnocofos - gentle Caribbean - Caribbean sullen - Cacaguayes - Caranacos - Cuyabas - Guaharivasblancos - Guayuncomos - Guarinagotos - Macoma - Macusis - Macurotos - Maranónis - Majanaos - Mejepures - Naturayos - Ocomesianas - Paraguana - paravenous -- Paudacotos - Puipuitenes - Parugotos - Tarumas - Yajurúues - Yures.

They were people well built, although some apparently weak, as would the Saliva, for example. Color a little more up the inhabitants of the plains and shores in large rivers were lighter-skinned people in the highlands of East and South. His kind of life did not allow fat types. In general with all hairless bodies and thick, straight hair. They used tear eyebrows as a sign of beauty and it showed no gray in old people, also were not very numerous. As for his height, was not very high in these Amazonian tribes, but their bodies were extremely agile, noticing that their feet were like in their hands, tremendous skill, being able to think that the toes were also understandable manner, not taking to stoop to grab things and raise them above the ground.

Some tribes little rebellious in nature, were peaceful by nature, others such as the famous Caribbean, brave, courageous and indomitable warriors. Although the earliest chroniclers of the falsely called cannibals come to describe and draw them eating human flesh, some time ago that this was rejected by mistake, but after much controversy.

They were always naked, but some used a small piece of cotton or bark tissue as guayuco plant or loincloth, adorning different parts of body bracelets used animal skins and feathers, armlets and anklets of agreements made with human hair is pierced ears, nose and lips to traverse stick, bones, feathers, of various calibres. Necklaces with snail and oyster shells, beads of clay and bone beads, seed ornaments also used as tonka beans, cucurito, palm fronds and even hard wings of beetles, which are tied to the neck and arms with some fragrant roots, which for they had special properties. They wore many ornaments with feathers of different colors and eye-catching, preparing them crowns of exquisite taste. With teeth and claws of animals they hunted (tigers, lions, eagles, armadillos, alligators, sloths, bears, etc..) Manufactured necklaces, crowns, bracelets or anklets, necklaces large pectoral ruzados used them as X-shaped hanging sideways neck and shoulders.

The lack of clothing was replaced by his colorful body painting, with annatto paste and oil or other vegetable dyes and even minerals (clays), painted in red, purple, white, yellow, black, according to the occasion and motive, having different meanings both color and the rare figures that are so artistically adorned the body. Sometimes used for this one seals made of wood or clay, flat or cylindrical, now called pintaderas.

Size of regulating drilling holes in the tips of her ears, stretching to insert wooden discs. Some Caribbean nations sharpened teeth, putting barbs sharp as needles or teeth of piranhas.

The music may be very beautiful and varied musical instruments used were made of reeds and hollow tubes of various shapes and forms, such as flutes with 6 tubes, small reed whistles with 6 notes, others with large bass as well as wooden rattles and seeds, a large conch-bodyguard. Instruments were also animal bones and pottery, which have been only evidence found at archaeological sites among highlights a clay pot used as a sounding board, with two holes in the top and side, facing each other ( male and female), where the two whistles were introduced that were played. Inseparable companions of the bells and whistles sound was the rattle. Some Caribbean nations pounding drums used in wood and leather or wood hammers of single, very large with very powerful sound that was heard at great distances. With these instruments and accompaniments of song and dance, great feasts were held, which lasted several days and it seems that some ended in bloody brawls.

The reasons for dancing were many: crops, funerals, wars, trips or visits, atmospheric phenomena and so on.; These dances vary according to their motivation or as the people who practiced it, but usually had many common details. Perhaps our tastes today with "refined", our ears and our eyes deceived by the progress, we would not understand anything of that naive natural force that dominates his celebration of his wonderful melodies, their harmonious songs or their spectacular choreographies.

Was to write many pages only on the experiential aspect of our ancestors, studying and analyzing the details to their songs, each representing one of his musical instruments and their interpretation, the different events where the dance unfolds, the dates they are made, the meanings of his paintings, his totem, even the names that distinguish each dance according to their meanings. Both in their musical notes and in their dance figures, would be symbolized songs of birds or mammals or sounds of animal movements. Celebrations that were manifestations of different rites. In some ritual dances were excluded women, on pain of death.

For these festive ceremonies there were always based fermented beverages meal mainly cassava tubers or sweet potato. But it also produced corn, sweet or ripe bananas cooked well and very comminuted, food and refreshing drinks. Each Aboriginal nation had its peculiar drink, though with little variety in materials and manufacturing methods used. These beverages were stored in large clay pots or in wooden canoes made for the purpose chosen. Her preference was wild honey.

This cassava flour or "cativía" which would be the mass of grated cassava and squeezed until dry, also produced the equivalent of our native American bread which would be the current cassava, an important food for those Aboriginal people. Additionally, this shredded and macerated cassava, fermented beverages produced.

And speaking of harvest for food, made collecting large quantities of wild fruit pineapples in mapuey, yams, roots, as well as insects, snails, crabs, and as for the meats are provided by hunting and fishing, by methods very clever.

They made clay pots, were famous weavers, then elaborated with vegetable fibers beautiful craftsmanship.

Among the most useful and important artifacts tissues, tissue tube was very strong and flexible with squeezing the mass of grated cassava has happened to our indigenous contemporaries. Sebucán The name is known in Venezuela.

Some towns were distinguished as warriors little attachment to their land and were more sedentary, the latter developed a craft that while it was for domestic use, its manufacturers also served them to trade with other peoples, who were operating based on bartering , barter, since it came to have knowledge of the currency. In these peaceful nations, and they could do sedentary and rustic planting crops, compared to current conucos. Their tools were mainly polished stone axes and sticks very hard with sharp points used as hoes burned to blast holes. No definite news has reached us that use fire to burn the vegetation that would lie with those for agriculture, at least in the Amazon.

Orinoco Rivers, and Black River were Casiquiare arterial roads for movement of people who often warred with each other. Because of the constant struggles and movements many Aboriginal nations disappeared without a trace, knowing its existence only by the stories and traditions that came to the first chroniclers Hispanics.

In their battles using heavy clubs of varying shapes and sizes, made of very hard wood. Bows and arrows, they sometimes tipped poisoned by the deadly curare, like the subtle darts of blowguns, spears also used light javelins way, with the sharp fire-hardened points. Those named as the most fearsome warriors were the numerous Caribbean nations, including certain ethnic branches lived near some rivers of the Amazon. Although there were no other Caribbean peoples who entered history as well as warlike and brave, because they knew how to defend with heroic bravery, their lands and their natural freedom.

It is important to note that when the conquistadors and settlers inquired further on cults and religious beliefs of the various aboriginal peoples of the New Continent, the most enlightened of them were amazed at the revelation of beliefs healthy and wise, almost all these people worshiped a Supreme Being or God, though under different names, who attributed the creations of their respective worlds and peoples, the author of everything good. Parallel to this God was for them who feared negative element and in turn attributed the evil, with all the misfortunes and calamities that befell their lives in their mythologies also included a number of other minor deities. Coincided almost all attributed this belief in the existence of an immortal body that was still when they died, compared with our soul that the body was separated from a place where he would receive the reward or punishment, depending on their performance on earth. In explaining this vaguely, adding that the Amazonian people share these same beliefs. One of the things that have made the greatest admiration is to know that among the most common mystical stories of these peoples with different languages, is that of a great flood that destroyed their villages.