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                                February 8, 2025 at 08:37 AM
                               
                            
                        
                            🔆 Mascho Piro Tribe
📍 Location:
✅ Nomadic hunter-gatherers in the Amazon jungles, near Peru’s border with Brazil and Bolivia.
✅ Live along the Las Piedras River in Alto Purús National Park, in palm leaf huts. In the rainy season, they move to rainforest huts.
📍 Population:
✅ Estimated to be over 750, making them one of the largest uncontacted tribes in the Amazon and Southeast Asia.
📍 Contact Policy:
✅ Prohibited contact to prevent the spread of diseases to which they may lack immunity.
📍 Way of Life:
✅ Wear minimal clothing: yellowish-brown cloth above the waist, arm and leg bands.
✅ Medium stature, athletic build, and straight black hair, worn shoulder-length or longer.
📍 Territorial Protection:
✅ Madre de Dios Territorial Reserve (2002) established to protect their land, though parts of it have been sold for timber and resources.
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