Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Tiriyó (also known as Trio) usually call themselves tarëno etymologically ‘people from here local people’. They are approximately 2000 (in 2005) and live in several major villages and a number of minor villages in the border zone between Brazil and Suriname. They speak the Tiriyó language a member of the Cariban language family.About 30% are Christians while 70% follow indigenous religions.
