_Achaguas_, on Rio Ele and Rio Muco. _Amoruas_, on Rio Vichada. _Avanenis_, on Rio Guainia. _Banivas_, see _Manivas_. _Barés_, on Rios Baria and Guainia. _Cabacabas_, between Rios Yapura and Apoporis. _Cafuanas_, on Rio Yapura. _Carusanas_, on the Guainia and Inirida. _Cauiris_, right bank of Rio Guaviare. _Caveres_ (_Cabres_), on Rio Zama and Orinoco near it. _Chirupas_, on the Rio Zama. _Guaripenis_, on Rio Guainia. _Guaypunavis_ (_Guipunavis_), on Lake Inirida. _Macuenis_, on Rio Guainia. _Manivas_ (_Banivas_, _Manitivas_), on Rio Guaviare and Rio Negro and their affluents. _Maipures_, on middle Orinoco. _Moroquenis_, on Rio Yapura. _Mituas_, on Lake Inirida. _Moruas_, on Rio Yapura. _Parenes_, on middle Orinoco. _Piapocos_, near mouth of Rio Guaviare. _Uaupes_, on Rio Uaupes (?). _Yaviteris_, on Rio Atabapo. The _Otomacos_ remain, as Gilii placed them, an independent stock, with their single dialect, the Tarapita. The Jesuits first encountered them in 1732, amid the forests south of the Orinoco, between the Paos and the Jaruros. In later years they are described as a low grade of savages, given to the eating of earth. They are also said to be monogamous, and the women among them enjoy an unusual degree of consideration, being permitted to take equal part in the public games.[411] Their present locality appears to be on or near the river Meta. The tribes whom Gilii mentions as the _Guamas_ and Quaquaros lived on the banks of the Rio Apure, and in his day had the reputation of “a numerous and valorous people.”[412] They were not unacquainted with some of the arts, and were particularly skillful in the manufacture of small figures in terra cotta, many of which are to be picked up on the sites of their ancient villages. Now, however, they have been smitten with the fate of their race, and are reduced to a few miserable vagrants, destined to disappear wholly in a few years. Their arts are lost, and the oppression of the whites has driven from them all hopes of bettering their condition.[413] Of their language I have no specimens. According to Felipe Perez, it is related to the Omagua, and hence should be included in the Tupi stock; but this writer is not always dependable.