In the immense territories of the department of Loreto, exist populations of native and aboriginal communities that can be visited. The great majority of these groups has been civilized by Catholic missions and they maintain ingrained many of their ancestral habits, such as their art, language, dances, feeding, etc.
These natives in general have great domain of the healing use of the plants and herbs, and hallucinogenic beverages as the 'ayahuasca'.
Groups or tribes like the 'Jíbaros' exist (formerly terrible reducers of heads), the 'Capanahuas', the 'Boras', the 'Yaguas', the 'Huitotos', the 'Ocainas', the 'Remiyacus', the 'Mayorunas', the 'Cocamas', among others.
Each one of these groups usually keeps as domain area or influences a territory that belongs to the basin of a certain river.
In the whole Peruvian jungle there are registered 64 tribes and sub tribes of aboriginal.
The tourist operators usually offer a visit to an inhabited town of these communities.
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Native of Loreto
Photograph: PromPerú
Yaguas
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