Hani-Thimava
The place
Hani-Thimava (Ayoreo name meaning "strong old woman") in Boquerón department, Filadelfia/Mariscal Estigarribia area (Paraguayan Chaco Boréal, Paraguay), at 205 m elevation, in the quebrachal chaqueño (quebracho woodland). New Paraguay cluster appearing in batch 358. Indigenous Ayoreo community (the last voluntarily isolated people outside the Amazon, 100+ Ayoreo Totobiegosode, "people of the red peccary", contacted from 2004+, the Iniciativa Amotocodie mobilizing the UN to protect a claimed territory of 500,000 ha, 2008-2020, deforestation for soy and cattle farming, 25% of the Chaco lost since 2000), an area of Chaco Boréal (700,000 km² of dry subtropical savanna + red/white quebracho, Schinopsis balansae/Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco, the hardest wood in the world + jaguar, Panthera onca + Chaco guanaco, Lama guanicoe), heritage of the Guaraní (pre-Columbian Tupi people, 60% of Paraguay's population, speaking Guaraní, an official language and South America's 2nd most spoken language after Spanish) + Mennonite colonies of Fernheim and Neuland, 30,000 German speakers, fleeing Stalinist Bolshevism in Russia and Uzbekistan in the 1930s, farmers in the Chaco.
The setting
Boquerón Filadelfia/Mariscal Estigarribia Paraguayan Chaco Boréal Paraguay 205 m quebrachal, new cluster batch 358, Ayoreo last voluntarily isolated people outside the Amazon 100+ Totobiegosode red peccary people contacted from 2004+ Amotocodie UN 500,000 ha 2008-2020 deforestation soy cattle 25% of Chaco lost since 2000, Chaco Boréal 700,000 km² dry subtropical savanna + Schinopsis balansae red quebracho/Aspidosperma white quebracho hardest wood in the world + Panthera onca + Lama guanicoe guanaco, Guaraní Tupi 60% of Paraguay's population 2nd most spoken language in South America + Mennonites Fernheim Neuland 30,000 German speakers 1930s fleeing Stalinist Bolshevism Russia Uzbekistan Chaco farmers.
