Coreguaje

The Coreguaje, who call themselves Korebaju — "people of the earth" — are a Western Tucanoan people of the Amazon piedmont in Colombia's Caquetá department, living in some two dozen communities along the Orteguaza River and its tributaries between Milán and Solano. Their language, related to Siona and Secoya, is still spoken across their settlements, and society is organized through patrilineal, exogamous lineages, of which a handful survive today.

Households combine agriculture — manioc, maize, plantains, and coca for traditional use — with fishing and crafts: women make pottery and woven goods, men build canoes and tools. The knee-length cotton tunic called cusma, once everyday dress, now appears mainly in ceremonial contexts and among traditional healers.

The Korebaju live in one of the most conflict-affected corners of the Colombian Amazon. Cattle frontier expansion, coca cultivation, and armed groups have hemmed in their resguardos, and violence and dispossession from the 1990s onward pushed families toward Florencia, Bogotá, and other cities. Communities and their regional association continue to defend territory and culture, partnering with conservation organizations on forest protection and pressing the state for security and land guarantees.