Cochimi

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Noun	1.	Cochimi - a member of a North American Indian people living in central Baja California Hoka, Hokan - a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan languages
	2.	Cochimi - the Yuman language spoken by the Cochimi Yuman - a group of language of the Hokan family in Arizona and California and Mexico

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Sin embargo, debemos senalar tambien que la presencia de los primeros tuvo lugar entre 1697 y 1768, y se limito unicamente al sur y centro peninsular, entre las poblaciones pericu, guaycura y cochimi; por su parte, los segundos permanecieron en Baja California solo por un corto tiempo (1 767-1768), ocupando las misiones jesuitas del Desierto Central, entre los cochimi; finalmente, los Dominicos fueron los unicos que desarrollaron un contacto regular con los yumanos del norte, a lo largo de sesenta anos, entre 1774 y 1834.

Los grupos yumanos de Baja California: ?indios de paz o indios de guerra? Una aproximacion desde la teoria de la resistencia pasiva

The Hokan of the Californian coastline and Baja California (Diegueno, Cochimi) were often specialized gatherers, and there were intertribal subdivisions: the coastal groups caught fish and collected seafood, and the inland groups did more hunting and collected plant foodstuffs.

3 Humans in the hot deserts and subdeserts

Unserved by roads and extremely hard to reach, this petroglyph site falls within the historic territory of the Cochimi, a Yuman-speaking people who made most of the middle of the peninsula their home.