Uni

The Uni are the Kakataibo, known in older records as Cashibo or Carapache, a Panoan forest people of the Peruvian Amazon who call themselves Uni. They live back from the Ucayali on the Aguaytía and other rivers, having apparently been pushed away from the main river banks by Shipibo and Conibo neighbours; their Kakataibo language belongs to the Western Panoan family.

They kept fiercely to themselves, raiding neighbouring peoples for women and blocking navigation of the Aguaytía. They joined the rebellion of Juan Santos Atahualpa in 1744 and helped destroy the missions, and when friars approached again in 1757 they killed one and chased the rest away, preserving their isolation until the end of the century and long after.