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The Jibito are an indigenous people of Peru. They first met with the Franciscans monks in 1676 in the forest near the Huallaga River, in what is now Peru's Loreto Province. After their conversion to Catholicism, they settled in villages on the western bank of the river.

See also

• South American Indigenous people
• Hibito–Cholon languages

References

1.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Jibitos". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 414.

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