These people live in the Meta, Vichada, and Guaviare rivers in Colombia[4] Piapoco speakers also reside in Venezuela.

[5] The Piapocos come from the larger tribe, the Piaroa, who are indigenous to the Amazon rain forest.

[6] The Piapoco people originally lived in the midsection of Rio Guaviare, later moving in the 18th century to avoid settlers, missionaries, and others.

[10] A Piapoco-Spanish dictionary containing 2,500 words was written by Deloris Klumpp, in which botanical identification of plants were captured, although not all.

[3] There are eighteen segmental phonemes, fourteen consonant and four vowels in the Piapoco language.