Choco

The Choco peoples are the Emberá, known in older writing as the Chocó or Katío, and the Wounaan, whose languages together form the Chocó family and are not known to be related to any other family of Central or South America. Their homeland is the rainforest of the Pacific coast of Colombia and Panama.

In the late 1700s, prompted by the Spanish, the Emberá began to move from the Chocó region into what is now Darién in Panama. There they came into conflict with the Guna and pushed them toward the Caribbean coast.