Ocaina

Ocaina
  • Dyo'xaiya
  • Ivo'tsa
Ocaina chief, 1924
Total population
137 (2012)
Regions with significant populations
Peru, Colombia
Languages
Ocaina

The Ocainas are an Amazonian indigenous people of Peru and Colombia, who are today in danger of extinction. There were 176 of them in 2012. They are one of the many Indigenous populations who still speak their original language, being Ocaina, a Witotoan language. In Amazonia, there are only 50 people who still speak Ocaina.

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