Yuri

The Yuri, also recorded as the Yurimagua, were a Tupi-Guarani people of the upper Amazon, who in the late seventeenth century lived between the Jutai and Jurua rivers and along the Huallaga, south of the Maranon. The Jesuit missionary Samuel Fritz described them and their neighbours the Aysuares as warriors whose women also fought with bow and arrow.

Missionaries gathered their village on the Huallaga into the reduction of Nuestra Senora de las Nieves de Yurimaguas, later the town of Yurimaguas. Communities bearing the name Yuri survived in the forests between the Caqueta and Putumayo rivers, where they lived in large communal longhouses surrounded by gardens.