Wayampi

The Wayãpi, also known as Wajãpi, are a Tupí-speaking people whose ancestors were recorded near the lower Xingu in the seventeenth century. They later moved north across the Amazon into the Jari country, seeking distance from colonial missions. Their forest territory extended between rivers flowing north and south from the Guiana highlands, linking the Jari with the Amapari and Oiapoque basins.