What is Guaraní people?
{{Infobox ethnic group | group = Guarani | image = File:Guaranis.jpg | total = 5 million<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Guarani|title=Guarani|website=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]|access-date=8 March 2019}}</ref> (estimated) | popplace = [[Paraguay]], [[Argentina]], [[Brazil]], [[Bolivia]], [[Uruguay]] | langs = [[Guarani language|Guarani]], [[Spanish (language)|Spanish]], [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]] | rels = [[Catholicism]], [[Protestantism]], [[Animism]] | related = [[Aché]], [[Chané people|Chané]], [[Caingang|Kaingang]], [[Mbayá people|Mbayá]], [[Tupi people|Tupi]] }} The '''Guarani''' are a group of peoples of [[South America]]. [[Indigenous peoples|They were in the continent before any European arrived there]]. They speak the [[Guaraní language|Guarani language]]. In the present the Guarani people live in [[Paraguay]], the [[Misiones Province|Misiones]] Province of [[Argentina]], southern [[Brazil]] once as far north as Rio de Janeiro, and parts of [[Uruguay]] and [[Bolivia]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Society-Guarani|url=http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7843|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060925035916/http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7843|archive-date=2006-09-25}}</ref> == Location == Originally, they lived in Paraguay between the [[Uruguay River]] and lower [[Paraguay River]]. In Argentina in the [[Misiones Province]]. In Brazil from its south up to Rio de Janeiro. Also, in parts of [[Uruguay]] and [[Bolivia]]. Today they still live in those areas, but their absolute and relative numbers were reduced by [[European colonization of the Americas|European colonisation]] and [[Mestizo|mixing up with Europeans]]. Most notably, the Guarani language, still widely spoken across traditional Guarani homelands, is one of the two official languages in Paraguay, the other one being [[Spanish language|Spanish]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Paraguay|url=http://www.embaparusa.gov.py/paraguay.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.