Present-day country
Paraguay
4 nations list Paraguay among their present-day countries.
Present-day countries are listed by ISO 3166 names. Many nations live across more than one.
4 nations
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Avá Guarani
Also known as Ñandeva
Lands Mato Grosso do Sul and Paraná in Brazil, and eastern Paraguay
Guarani peoples, the Avá Guarani among them, live across a territory that spans regions of Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina.
Source: Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) (opens in a new tab) Checked
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Guarani Kaiowá
Also known as Kaiowá
Lands Southern Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, and neighboring eastern Paraguay, where the people are known as Paĩ Tavyterã
Guarani communities today call the places they live tekoha, a word that joins land, forest, fields, water, animals, plants and medicines.
Source: Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) (opens in a new tab) Checked
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Guarani Mbya
Also known as Mbyá
Lands Villages across southern and southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, Misiones province in Argentina, and near Montevideo in Uruguay
The Comissão Guarani Yvyrupa, founded in 2006, brings together Guarani collectives in six states of southern and southeastern Brazil.
Source: Comissão Guarani Yvyrupa (opens in a new tab) Checked
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Qom
Lands Gran Chaco of northern Argentina, especially Chaco, Formosa and Santa Fe provinces, plus communities in Buenos Aires and in Paraguay
The Qom language is being recovered in universities and in community-run spaces, and children and teenagers are taking it up.
Source: Unidiversidad, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (from Télam) (opens in a new tab) Checked