The Banawá (also Banawa, Banavá, Jafí, Kitiya, Banauá) are an indigenous group of just seventy people 1994, living along the Banawá River in the Amazonas State, Brazil, where they are concentrated in a single village and two smaller settlements containing a single extended family each. Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) Amazonas (amaˈzonas is a state of Brazil, located in the northern part of the country The Banawá, who call themselves Kitiya, speak an Arauan language.