Terena

The Terena are an Arawak-speaking Indigenous people whose history connects the Chaco with the Miranda and Aquidauana river valleys. They belonged to the wider Guaná peoples, who cultivated crops and maintained alliances with the Mbayá-Guaikuru. After moving east of the Paraguay, Guaná communities established themselves in a new river country while retaining elements of their social organisation and agricultural life.