Bohan

The Bohan, also called Bojanes or Mbohanes, were a small Indigenous nation of the eastern Uruguay River bank, holding the Negro-to-Cuareim stretch around the Salto Grande rapids on the later Uruguay-Brazil border; some groups crossed into Entre Ríos, their possible homeland. Scholars disagree whether they belonged to the Yaro or were a Charrúa branch, some linking them to the Kaingang and the Jê family.

Before the Charrúa came they fought with slings, spears and wooden clubs; after merging with them they took up the bow and the boleadoras. The Bohan backed the Charrúa against the Spaniards.

In 1715 fifteen hundred Guaraní from the Jesuit reduction of Yapeyú marched against the Charrúa, Bohan and Yaro to the Ñancay stream. After Montevideo was founded the northward Charrúa advance absorbed them, and the Bohan vanished as a separate people.