![]() ![]() It was the Spaniards who first named the Barí "Motilones," or "people of the short hair." The Barí fought the Spaniards back from their territory, defeating five royal expeditions sent to pacify the Indians. The Spaniards believed that the area's frequent lightning strikes turned stone into gold, and so they began settling the region extensively. In the 16th century, Alonso de Ojeda of Spain sailed to South Caribbean coasts and reached the Maracaibo Basin. "Motilones" means "shaved heads" in Spanish, and is how Spanish-speaking Colombians and Venezuelans refer to them. They are descendants of the Tairona culture concentrated in northeastern Colombia and western Venezuela.Īlthough the Barí and Yukpa peoples are commonly referred to as "Motilones," this is not how they refer to themselves. ![]() ![]() The Motilones-Barí, sometimes also called Barís, Motilones «or for its singular: Motilón» or Dobocubis, are an indigenous people who live in the Catatumbo River basin in Norte de Santander Department in Colombia in South America and who speak the Barí language. ![]()
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