Seeptsa

The Seeptsa are the Cholon, as the Spanish called them, rainforest people of the left bank of the Huallaga on the eastern slope of the Peruvian Andes. Their Seeptsa language, with the related Hibito, formed a small family. They lived by slash-and-burn farming, hunting and fishing, and traded feathers, wax and honey to the highland Hibito.

Franciscans contacted them and founded mission villages in 1676. In the eighteenth century the friar Pedro de la Mata wrote a Seeptsa grammar. Quechua and Spanish then displaced the language along the Huallaga.