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Araya

Araya may refer to:

  • Araya (name), a surname and given name (including a list of persons with the name)
  • Araya (film), a 1959 documentary film
  • Arayan, a caste of India
Araya (film)

Araya is a 1959 Venezuelan- French documentary film directed by Margot Benacerraf and co-written by Benacerraf and Pierre Seghers. It depicts the lives of laborers who extract salt from the sea off the Araya peninsula in Venezuela. Their method for extracting salt, virtually unchanged for centuries, depends on grueling physical labor, but provides a dependable, if meager, living for the men and their families. The film ends with a recently built plant for mechanized salt extraction that could eliminate the community's traditional source of income.

The film was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival, where it shared the Cannes International Critics Prize with Alain Resnais's Hiroshima mon amour.

In 2009, Milestone Films released Araya in North American theaters for the first time as well as rereleasing it internationally. Milestone also distributes a restored DVD version of the film.

Araya (name)

Araya, originally Araia, is a Basque surname, from the town Araia in Aspárrena, province of Alava, Basque Country. People with the surname Araya or Araia include:

  • Felipe Araya (born 1991), Chilean footballer
  • Guillermo Araya (born 1985), Chilean handball player
  • Graciela Araya (born 1962), Chilean-born Austrian mezzo-soprano opera singer
  • Johnny Araya Monge (born 1957), Costa Rican politician
  • Luciano Araya (born 1992), Argentine footballer
  • Marcela Araya (born 1992), Chilean volleyball p?layer
  • Pedro Araya Toro (born 1942), Chilean footballer
  • Rayén Araya (born 1981), Chilean radio and television journalist
  • Rolando Araya Monge (born 1947), Costa Rican socialist politician
  • Tom Araya (born 1961), Chilean-born American musician, lead singer and bass player with Slayer
  • Yerko Araya (born 1986), Chilean racewalker

Araya is a Tigray-Tigrinya given name/lineage name. People with this name include:

  • Araya Selassie Yohannes (1867–1888), Ethiopian army commander and nobleman
  • Gugsa Araya Selassie (1885–1932), son of Araya Selassie Yohannes
  • Araya Desta (born 1945), Eritrean diplomat
  • Zeudi Araya (born 1951), Eritrean actress
  • Araya Mengesha (born 1989), Canadian actor