Chané
Chané is the collective name for the southernmost Arawakan-speaking peoples. They lived in the plains of the northern Gran Chaco and in the foothills of the Andes in Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, and Argentina. The historical Chané are divided into two principal groups: the Chané proper who lived in eastern Bolivia, and the Guaná who lived in Paraguay and adjacent Brazil. Twenty-first century survivors of the Chané are the Izoceno people of Bolivia and 3,034 descendants reported in Argentina by the 2010 census. Survivors of the Guaná are the Tereno and the Kinikinao both of Mato Grosso do Sul province in Brazil.
El Fuerte de Samaipata, Chané ruins that predate the Inca, Samaipata, Bolivia | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 1,500 | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Argentina 3,034 (2010) Bolivia Paraguay | |
| Languages | |
| Chiriguano, Spanish, formerly Chané language (an Arawakan language) | |
| Religion | |
| Animism, Christianity (Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism) |
Most of the historical Chané were subjects of and absorbed by the Eastern Bolivian Guarani, commonly called Chiriguanos, while the Guaná were subjects of the Mbayá, a Guaycuruan speaking people.