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Chiara

chee-AH-rah

tʃiˈɑːrɑ

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Chiara

Name meaning and origin

Origin
Tsimane (Bolivia)
Meaning
a feminine name used among the Tsimane people of the Bolivian Amazon, one of the most studied indigenous communities in medical anthropology due to the remarkable cardiovascular health and cognitive longevity of their elders, attributed to their highly active subsistence lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and swidden agriculture; the Tsimane's close relationship with the Amazonian forest ecosystem — their pharmacopoeia, their ecological knowledge, and their ritual management of human-forest relations — is encoded in personal names that reflect the sensory world of river and canopy
Gender
female

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