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Total population Regions with significant populations  Venezuela
extinct Timote-Cuica language  Timoto–Cuica people were an
indigenous group compromised primarily of two tribes, the
Timotes and the Cuicas, that inhabited in the Andean region of
western Venezuela.[1] They were closely related to the Muisca
people of the Andes, who spoke a Chibchan based language. The
Timoto-Cuicas were not only composed of the Timoto and the Cuica
tribes, but also the Mucuchíes, the Migures, the Tabayes, and
the Mucuñuques.  Culture and lifeways[edit]  Timoto-Cuica
territory, in present day Mérida, Venezuela  Pre-Columbian
Venezuela had an estimated indigenous population of one
million,[1] with the Andean region being the most densely
populated area. The two tribes lived peacefully in what are
today the states of Mérida, Trujillo, and Táchira.  Timoto-Cuica
society was complex with pre-planned permanent vill