The Curripaco, also written Kurripako, are an Arawakan-speaking Indigenous people associated with Guainía, Inírida, Vaupés, and border regions with Venezuela and Brazil. Their communities are connected to rivers, forest gardens, fishing, hunting, craftwork, and strong territorial identity.
The Guainía region is part of the Amazon-Orinoco world, with blackwater rivers, rocky formations, forest landscapes, and cross-border Indigenous relationships. Curripaco life reflects this geography. Rivers are central to travel, food, stories, and social connection.
Curripaco communities have experienced mission influence, migration, state border pressures, schooling systems, and economic change. Yet they continue to maintain cultural identity through language, family, territory, and community authority.
For Dulce Amazónica, the Curripaco help expand the visitor’s understanding beyond the Amazon River itself. The Colombian Amazon includes Guainía, Inírida, and the living cultures of the Amazon-Orinoco transition.
One of Many Voices
This community is one of many Indigenous peoples whose presence, knowledge, and artisanías are represented through Dulce Amazónica in Guatapé, Colombia. When you visit, you meet an ambassador from one of our partner communities in person.