Cocamas

Cocamas belongs to the country of the Kokama people, whose cultural geography spans the upper Amazon of Peru, Brazil and Colombia. Their dispersed communities lived by rivers and flooded forest, where canoes moved families between fishing camps and garden plots. Kokama served as a trade language across the western Amazon, and flooded forests supplied fish, turtles and seasonal fruit. Settlement could shift with fishing, farming and transport rather than gather around one fixed town.