Amazing Mascho-Piro Tribe

The Mashco-Piro or Mascho Piro Tribe, furthermore known as the Cujareño people, are an indigenous tribe of nomadic hunter-gatherers who inhabit the isolated districts of the Amazon rainforest. They live in Manu reserve in the Madre de Dios Region in Peru. They have in the past dynamically avoided communicate with non-native peoples.

In 1894, most of the Mashco-Piro tribe was slaughtered by the personal armed detachment of Carlos Fitzcarrald, in the top Manú stream area. The survivors withdrew to the isolated plantation areas. The sightings of the Mashco-Piro tribe constituents increased in the 21st years. According to the anthropologist Glenn Shepard, who had an encounter with the Mashco-Piro in 1999, the increased sightings of the tribe could be due to illegal logging in the area and low-flying airplane affiliated with oil and gas exploration.

In 2012, Survival worldwide issued some new images of the tribe members. The archaeologist Diego Cortijo of the Spanish Geographical humanity apprehended photographs of a Mashco-Piro family from the Manú nationwide Park, while on an expedition along the Madre de Dios stream in search of petroglyphs. His local guide Nicolas "Shaco" Flores, who was discovered dead six days subsequent with a bamboo-tipped projectile stuck in his heart, is believed to have been slain by constituents of the Mashco-Piro tribe.