Lumnana

The Chorote, who also call themselves Yofuasha or Lumnana, are a Gran Chaco people of the Pilcomayo River in the borderlands of present-day Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia. Chorote itself is an outside name, probably given by the Chiriguano Guaraní, and the people divide into riverine and forest groups, the latter including the Manjui. Their speech forms the Chorote branch of the Mataguayan family.

Until the later 1600s they held the right bank of the middle Bermejo, when colonial punitive expeditions drove them north to the Pilcomayo.

Semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers who also fished and grew maize, cassava and squash, they lived in exogamous extended-family bands under leaders who ruled by consensus, traded fish, shell ornaments and textiles with the Nivaclé and Wichí, and kept a spring carob festival of renewal.