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The Huitoto, Witoto, Güitoto or Murui-Muinane are an ethnic or indigenous people of the Colombian and Peruvian Amazon, whose original territory was in the middle of the Caquetá River and its tributaries, and the jungle area that goes to the Putumayo River. They speak a language of the Bora-Witoto family.

At present they are scattered in several regions of the Amazon, inhabiting the region known as the Colombian Mid-Amazon as well as an important Peruvian sector on the border with Colombia

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Family of Languages ​​bora-witoto that includes besides uitotos, nonuñas, ocainas, muninanes and bora-mirañas, among others.
Traditionally they were divided into lineages, patrilineal and exogamous, 3 that they inhabited, although some still do, in a community house known as jofómo or maloca. Several families share this living space led by the most knowledgeable couple, usually the oldest. Inside, each family has an independent hearth and a special area to hang their hammocks. There the food is processed where the Casabe is essential, arepa made from braised yucca flour approximately one meter in diameter, and that is the basis of their diet, together with the animal protein, product of hunting and fishing

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The Huitoto people have developed a complex ritual system, which encompasses a wide variety of ceremonies. The owner of the Maloca, Numaira, compunge as the main figure of the rituals; He is the connoisseur of rufanes (key words) and of their correct execution. According to Professor Roberto Pineda Camacho, "the ritual reproduces a dual structure: the guests assume control of one side of the Maloca and the active function.

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The witoto family of languages ​​(witoto, huitotoano, witotó) is made up of 7 languages, 4 of which are dead, spoken in Colombia, Peru and Brazil. Their relationship is discussed being put together with the Bora languages ​​forming a set called bora-witoto, others place it with the andoke and others insert it within the macro-Caribbean together with the bora.