Ikpeng

Ikpeng takes its name from a Carib-speaking people of the forested interior between the Tapajós and Xingu river systems. Their own account describes a movement upstream from the Amazon by way of the Tapajós and Teles Pires. In the nineteenth century they lived between the Teles Pires and Ronuro rivers. Their villages formed part of a landscape of forest and streams, where neighbouring peoples maintained distinct languages and traditions.