Search results for "Guaraní" - New World Encyclopedia

name "Paraguay" is derived from the Guaraní word pararaguay meaning "from ... mixture of traditional Spanish culture with the native Guaraní culture. ...

of the natives in their lingua franca, Guaraní, was held there. For a time, ... About 95 percent of the people are mestizos of mixed Spanish and Guaraní Indian ...

The River Paraguay (Río Paraguay in Spanish, Rio Paraguai in Portuguese, and meaning “big mirror of waters” in the native Guaraní language) is the fifth largest ...

of Europeans. Indian tribes, such as the Guaraní used it, and still use it, for ... Guarana plays an important role in Tupi and Guaraní Brazilian culture. The ...

The Guaraní (Guarani, in Brazilian Portuguese) people started drinking mate ... and western Brazil. First invented by the Guaraní natives in Paraguay and western ...

and were attacked by the natives (probably Guaraní although for a long time the ... the Bororo and Guayacurú. Farther south the Guaraní established more permanent villages ...

#039;s evangelizing in Quechua, Aymara and Guaraní actually contributed to the continuous ... Ecuador); Aymara (Bolivia, Chile and Peru); Guaraní (in Paraguay and Bolivia); and ...

culture. They were displaced around 1,000 C.E. by the Guaraní, who brought new agricultural technologies, and were displaced in turn by the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadores ...

Collasuyu. In the northeastern area, the Guaraní developed a culture based on ... Pilagá, Chulupí, Diaguita-Calchaquí, Kolla, Guaraní (Tupí Guaraní and Avá Guaraní ...

The first European to travel the "Father of the Waters" (from the Guaraní language) was Sebastian Cabot in 1526. In 1525 Cabot assumed charge of a three ...

James Mooney, [https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07045a.htm "Guaraní Indians,"] Catholic Encyclopedia Volume VII (New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910 ...

Collasuyu. In the northeastern area, the Guaraní developed a culture based on ... is Spanish, though the Amerindian language Guaraní also holds official status in ...

in 1516. He and his group were killed by Charrúa or Guaraní Indians. The Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan anchored at the future site of Montevideo in 1520 ...

while others attribute the term to the related Guaraní languages. In the Tupi language, the original and complete indigenous name for the species is jaguara, which ...

Quechua-speaking groups, the Aymara, Chiquitano, and Guaraní. Bolivia is one of the least-developed countries in South America. Almost two-thirds of its people, ...

Paraguay. The name "Uruguay" comes from Guaraní the language, meaning "river of the painted birds." The Spanish discovered the territory of present ...

in which he was killed by the native Charrúa or Guaraní tribe, in today's Uruguay. ===Founding=== The city was first established as Ciudad de Nuestra Señora ...

The War of the Triple Alliance, also known as the Paraguayan War (or in native Guaraní, Guerra Guazú, meaning “Great War”), was fought from 1864 to 1870, and ...

*In Guaraní mythology, the number of prominent legendary monsters *Seven Lucky Gods exist in Japanese mythology *In Irish Mythology, the epic hero Cúchulainn is ...

In South America, the Guaraní Aquifer is located between the Mercosur countries of Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay. With a volume of about 40,000 km³ ...