Guamontey

The Guamontey, also called Guamo, were an Indigenous people of the Venezuelan Llanos. Eighteenth-century accounts place them with Otomaco communities in the plains near Cunaviche and the Apure River. Hunting, fishing and gathering supported mobile communities in a landscape transformed by the wet and dry seasons. Colonial expeditions and missions entered the plains during this period, encountering peoples who knew its rivers and seasonal resources.