Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Nukak [nɨkâk] people (also Nukak-Makú) live between the Guaviare and Inírida rivers in the depths of the tropical humid forest on the fringe of the Amazon basin in Guaviare Department Republic of Colombia. They are nomadic hunter-gatherers with seasonal nomadic patterns and in addition they practice a shifting horticulture in small scale. An uncontacted people until 1981 they have since lost half of their population primarily to disease.
