The Embera-Wounaan are an indigenous group living in Panama's Darien province along rivers like the Chucunaque and Tuira. They are semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers and farmers divided into the Chocoe-Wounaan and Chocoe-Embera subgroups. They practice traditions like polygamy, sharing meat from large hunts, and living in thatched houses raised on stilts. Women wear brightly colored wraps and long black hair while children go naked until puberty, and both sexes paint their bodies and have minimal clothing outside of towns.

1. Ethnic groups in panama
EMBERA-WOUNAAN

2. REPUBLIC OF PANAMA
MINISTERY OF EDUCATION
I.P.T. JACOBA URRIOLA SOLIS
POWER POINT
EMBERA WOUNAAN
STUDENT´S NAME
YIMAR MELENDEZ
ESMERALDA SANDOVAL
ELIZABETH MARTINEZ
JOSE AVILES
YANILEISY CARRASCO
LEYSI NIETO
TEACHER
LORIBELL MORENO
SCHOOL YEAR
2014

3. RTWY
• PANAMA OWNS A CENTRAL POSITION. AS A RESULT ,THE COUNTRY PRESENTS A MIXTURE
OF ETHNIC DIVERSITY . IT IS IMPORTANT TO MENTION THAT OUR POPULATION IS A
MIXTURE OF DIFERENT ETHNIC GROUPS SUCH AS CAUCASIAN , INDIAS AND BLACKS .
THERE ARE TWO GROUPS OF BLACK PEOPLE , THE AFRO-COLONIAL GROUP AND THE
AFRO-ANTILLEAN .FURTHERMORE , PEOPLE FROM OTHET CULTURAL ROOTS SUCH AS
ESPANISH , ITALIAN , CHINISE ,HEBREW , HINDU , GREEK , COLOMBIAN , AND OTHERS ,
FROM PART OF OUR CULTURAL HERITAGE. IN PANAMA , THERE ARE THEE MAJOR NATIVE
GROUP :GUNAS , NGOBE-BUGLE, AND EMBERA-WOUNAAN . THE ETHNIC GROUP THAT
OWNS MORE HABITANTS IS NGOBE-BUGLE. ALL THESE GROUP PRESERVE THEIR NATIVE
LANGUAGE BUT MANY OF THESE GROUP ALSO SPEAK SPANISH.

4. 1.YIMAR:*IT IS A SEMI-NOMADIC INDIGENOUS PEOPLE IN PANAMA, LIVING IN THE
PROVINCE OF DARIEN AT THE SHORES OF THE CHUCUNAQUES, SAMBU, TUIRA RIVERS
AND ITS WATER WAYS. THEY ARE DIVIDED IN TWO MAIN GROUPS:CHOCOE-
WOUNAAN,CHOCOE-EMBERA.

5. 2.ESMERALDA:*OCCUPATION
HUNTING
AGRICULTURE
FISHING
CERAMICS
BASKET MAKERS
WOOD CARVING

9. 3.ELIZABETH:* THE CALABASH TREE IMPORTANT TO THE EMBERA, WHO SCOOP OUT THE
TREE´S GOURDS FOR CUPS AND BOWLS , AS WELL AS SPOONS . THEY STILL HUNT WITH
SNARES, BLOW GUNS, BOWS AND ARROWS , AS WELL AS FIREARMS.

10. 4.AVILES:*HOUSING AND TRANSPORTATION
THEIR HOUSES ARE RAISED OFF THE GROUND ABOUT EIGHT FEET . THE HOUSES STAND ON
LARGE POSTS SET INTH GROUND, AND HAVE THATCHED ROOF MADE FROM PALM FRONDS.
THEY USE CANOES AND HORSES AS MAEN OF TRANSPORT.

11. 5.YANILEISY:*COSTUMES AND TRADITIONS
THECHOCO PEOPLE PRACTICE POLYGAMY AND LIVE IN FAMILY UNITS. EVERYONE IN THE
ILLAGE PITCHES IN IN TO WORK AT HARVEST TIME. IF ONE HUNTER GETS A LARGER
ANIMAL SUCH AS A TAPIR {MACHO DE MONTE}, EVERYBODY IN THE VILLAGE SHARES
THE MEAT.

12. 6.LEYSI:*CLOTHING
THE WOMEN WEAR BRIGHTLY COLORED CLOTH WRAPPED ATTHE WAIST
AS A SKIRT.EXCEPT WHEN IN TOWNS, THE WOMEN DO NOT COVER
THEIR TORSOS, AND WEAR LONG, STRAIGHT BLACK HAIR. THE CHILDREN
GO NAKED UNTIL PUBERTY, AND NO ONE WEARS SHOES. THEY PAIN
THEIR BODIES WITH A DYE MADE FROM GENIPA AMERICANA, THE
BERRY OF A SPECIES OF GENIP TREE.THE MEN SPORT ´´BOWL CUT´´ HAIR
STYLES, AND WHEN NOT IN TOWNS, STILL WEAR NOTHING BUT A
MINIMAL LOIN CLOTH.