Maina Indians

₪The Maina Indians are a group of tribes who lived or live along the north bank of the Marañón River in South America.^[1] They spoke varieties of the Omurano language and resided along the North bank of the Marañón.^[2]

The Maina were among the first tribes of the upper Amazon region to have been evangelized by the Catholic Church, leading to the naming of several jurisdictions and areas after the tribe, including the province of Mainas, which included the larger part of the present Ecuador and northern Peru, east of the main Cordillera, including the basins of the Huallaga and Ucayali.

The Maina Indians were one of many older cultures to play with rubber balls as toys. They called it "caucho" which combined the words "caa" (wood) and "ochu" (to cry), made by extracting the sap from a tree they called "heve" and letting it dry into a playable solid that we today call rubber.^[3]

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Ancestry and ethnicity in Ecuador
Indigenous	Awa-Kwaiker Canelos-Quichua Cañari Chachi Cholo pescador Cofán Huaorani Tagaeri Jivaroan Achuar Aguaruna Huambisa Shuar Maina Quichua Panzaleo Quijos-Quichua Otavalo Puruhá Sápara Secoya Siona Taromenane Teteté Tsáchila
Non-Indigenous	African Americans Mestizos Uruguayans White Croatians Lebanese Jews

Ancestry and ethnicity in Peru
Indigenous	Andean Aymara Maina Q'ero Quechuas Wankas Amazonian Achuar Aguano Aguaruna Amhuaca Arakmbut Asháninka Bora Canelos-Quichua Cashibo Chuncho Huambisas Jibitos Jíbaro Machiguenga Matsés (Mayoruna) Quijos-Quichua Secoya Shipibo-Conibo Urarina Yagua Yanesha' Zápara
Non-indigenous	European British Croatian French German Italian Spanish Asian Chinese Indian Japanese Korean Others African Jews B'nai Moshe Mestizo Latin American Uruguayan
Category:Ethnic groups in Peru

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