Natives
The original population of the Amazon are the Natives. For the Natives the Amazon is their mother, their soul, their everything. For centuries they had a undefined knowlegde about the nature and the area. Knowledge that nowadays still hasn't been discoverded in our culture.
The natives supply themselves with fishing, hunting and collecting.
The latest rates have shown that there are about 600.000 natives left in the Area. Before the Spanish Conquista there where approximately millions of Natives.
About the year 1900 we learned that there were about 260 different groups with natives. 150 of them survived the colonisation. Every single group of the natives speaks their own langauge or with their own dialect, so they can hardly understand eachother. Language became important when the first whites arrives in the area. The languages are seperates into four groups: Tupí Guarani, Jê, Karib and Arawak.