Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Warao are an indigenous people inhabiting northeastern Venezuela and western Guyana. Alternate common spellings of Warao are Waroa Guarauno Guarao and Warrau. The term Warao translates as the boat people after the Warao’s lifelong and intimate connection to the water. Most of the approximately 20000 Warao inhabit Venezuela’s Orinoco Delta region with smaller numbers in neighboring Guyana and Suriname.They speak an agglutinative language also called Warao.
