Chariguriqua

The Chariguriqua were a Khoekhoe people of the western Cape, north of the Dutch settlement at Table Bay. Like other Khoekhoe groups, they belonged to a world in which livestock and movement between pastures were central to life. During the wars of the later seventeenth century, Dutch accounts recorded fighting between the Chariguriqua and the Cochoqua under Gonnema. The name was later associated with the Griqua, a community of diverse origins that formed beyond the colonial frontier.