Kaiabi

Kaiabi is a name for the Kawaiwete, an Indigenous people of the country west of the Xingu River. Their traditional lands extended between the Arinos, the river they call Tatuy, and the middle Teles Pires. The Kawaiwete have a strong agricultural tradition, cultivating many varieties of plants in gardens cleared from the forest. Their homeland forms part of a wider region of rivers and forests long inhabited by Tupi-speaking peoples.