Yukpa people

{{Short description|Indigenous people of Colombia}} {{Infobox ethnic group | group = Yukpa | native_name = | native_name_lang = | flag =  | flag_caption = | image = Etnia Juckpa.JPG | image_caption = Woman selling crafts with her daughter in a river near the Sierra de Perija

| total =  | total_year =  | total_source =  | total_ref =  | genealogy = | regions = {{flag|Venezuela}} 10,877<br>{{flag|Colombia}} 4,761 <ref>"Yukpa del Perijá, cazadores, recolectores, agricultores". Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia, 2010.</ref>

| languages = Spanish, Yukpa | philosophies = | religions = | related_groups = | footnotes = }} [[Image:Yukpasmap.png|thumb|right|200px|The '''Yukpa''' territory in the Cesar Department.]] The '''Yukpa''' are an Indigenous ethnic group that inhabits the northeastern part of the Cesar Department in northern Colombia by the Serranía del Perijá bordering Venezuela. Their territory covers the eastern areas of the municipalities of Robles La Paz, Codazzi and Becerril in ''Resguardos'' (indian reserve) named Socorpa, Menkue, El Cozo Iroka and some other small areas in Venezuela. According to an Inter Press Service story, the majority of the Yukpa, who number nearly 10,000, live in Venezuela although some communities are still located in the mountains across the border in Colombia.<ref>[http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105598 Venezuela Government Distributes Land to Yukpa Indians] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111030084720/http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=105598 |date=October 30, 2011 }}</ref> The Yukpa people have been known to consume certain nest-inhabiting wasp species, such as ''Polistes pacificus'', which make paper nests that can be quickly knocked from its hanging place on a tree directly into a fire, where the larvae are then toasted.<ref name="Ruddle 1973">{{cite web | last =Ruddle | first =Kenneth | title=The Human Use of Insects: Examples from the Yukpa | work=Biotropica Vol. 5 no. 2, pp. 94-101 | date=1973 }}{{dead link|date=May 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

==See also== *Yukpa language

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==External links== * [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=yup Ethnologue.com: the Yukpa language] * [http://www.everyculture.com/South-America/Yukpa.html everyculture.com: Yukpa] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070929094658/http://www.rgs.gov.co/noticias.shtml?x=14924 Red de Gestores Sociales: Yukpa] * [http://www.siju.gov.co/downloads/investigaciones/pdf_047.pdf ESTUDIO SOBRE LAS CONDICIONES Y CALIDAD DE VIDA DE LA ETNIA YUKPA]{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} * [https://www.scribd.com/document/98441392/Untitled ESTUDIO SOBRE LAS CONDICIONES Y CALIDAD DE VIDA DE LA ETNIA YUKPA] Scribd * [https://www.amazon.com/Hammered-as-gold-David-Howard/dp/B0006BZ486/ David M. Howard account of protestant missionaries among Yukpa Indians] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20120309045843/http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/01/05/venezuela-returns-more-land-to-yukpa-people-in-2011-70498 "Venezuela Returns More Land to Yukpa People in 2011,"] ''Indian Country Today'' * [https://www.wsj.com/articles/taking-the-gospel-to-the-yukpa-1470353212 "Taking the Gospel to the Yukpa"] The Wall Street Journal

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