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Also known as Kaingang people

The Kaingang people are an Indigenous Brazilian ethnic group spread out over the three southern Brazilian states of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul and the southeastern state of São Paulo. Their population was around 51,000 in 2022.

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Ethnic group.group
Kaingang
Ethnic group.image
Índios Caingangue.tif
Ethnic group.image_caption
Caingangue Indians (1910).
Ethnic group.total
51,000
Ethnic group.total_year
2022
Ethnic group.regions
Paraná, Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul, São Paulo (Brazil)
Ethnic group.languages
Kaingang language

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Quadro Geral dos Povos - Povos Indígenas no Brasil

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Population
45620
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Kaingangs
native label
Kaingang
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The Kaingang people are an Indigenous Brazilian ethnic group spread out over the three southern Brazilian states of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul and the southeastern state of São Paulo. Their population was around 51,000 in 2022.

== Names == Kaingang is spelled caingangue in Portuguese, and kanhgág in the Kaingang language. It is also sometimes rendered as Aaingang or Caingang.

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