Presenting the Maonan

The maonan are one of the minorities less known about China that it stems partly to live in the isolated Guizhou province, and partly to that centuries of existence surrounded with the Han have eliminated many of his characteristics diferenciadoras like an independent ethnic group,

His population belongs to 72.000 inhabitants according to the census of 1990.

There are autonamed "Anan", which means: "those who live here"

The majority they live concentrated enough on the Autonomous County of Huanjiang (province of Guizhou), in the municipalities of Shuiyuan and Xianan. Especialemente in the county of Shangnan of this first municipality.

His habitab is a subtropical area, with soft climate and abundant rains.

His Language belongs to the family zhuang-dong, branch dong-shui.

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