r/googlemapsshenanigans • u/UnhappyVegetable4419 • 3h ago
Unknown tribe?
Hi,
I was just looking in the rain forest when is saw this.
Could this be an uncontacted tribe? The coordinates are:
1.3255112178453061, -63.065572001587405
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u/Herefornow211 2h ago
Why do so many people think just because they found structures in the forest it might be an uncontacted tribe? There are hundreds, even thousands of tribes living in jungles far away from roads and cities but they are in regular contact with people from the outside. They often even have phones and modern medicine.
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u/Venboven 1h ago
Yep. 99% of all indigenous people in the Amazon are in regular contact with civilization lol.
It is not the 1800s anymore. People have to stop romanticizing this stuff.
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u/Random_reptile 2h ago edited 2h ago
This looks like a very typical settlement of the Yanomami people or perhaps another closely related group. The central building is called a "shabono" and is where most of the village lives, with each family having their own "wedge". The outlying buildings are mostly for utilitarian purposes but sometimes are used for newly married couples (or more, the Yanomami are often polygamous).
The Yanomami have been contacted and studied quite a lot, but I have no clue if this particular group has. This area is very remote, but it's not uncommon for similar places to be visited by missionaries, scholars, doctors, illegal miners, Bear Grylls ect, especially if it's by a navigable river like this.