Mura people

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Mura
Total population

5,540
Regions with significant populations
Brazil
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Mura

The Muras are an indigenous people in the Brazilian state of Amazonas, where they live on the Amazon from the Madeira to the Purus. Formerly a powerful people, they were defeated by their neighbors the Mundrucus in 1788.

Each village has a chief whose office is hereditary, but he has little power.

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