[1] The Cashibo have three subgroups, that are the Cashiñon, Kakataibo, and Ruño peoples.

[1] When first approached by missionaries in 1757, the Cashibo killed one of them and forced the rest to flee.

They joined Juan Santos Atahualpa in 1744 in the destruction of missions.

During the punitive expedition, women and children were captured and there was a massacre when around five hundred Cashibo men tried to attack the group of Peruvians returning to their gunboats.

[2] In 1940, the Peru government offered the surviving Cashibos a reservation; however, they declined, wishing to remain in their own homeland.