Gaudas and Kunbis (Konkani:गावडें,कुणबी) are aboriginal people residing in the coastal Indian state of Goa. They are of Proto-Australoid stock and are believed to be the original inhabitants of Konkan. Most of them have been following folk Hinduism,whereas many were baptized to Catholicism by the Portuguese missionaries in last few centuries,while they have still kept their folk tradition and culture alive.They were hierarchically classified as landless laborers.

They are organised into various subgruops such as :

These groups had their specific roles within their community.They had their own priests and worshiped deities like Santeri or the anthill,Bhauka,Kelbai,Malkajan,Malkumi.Almost all of these deities were Sanskritised either by others or themselves in the course of time.

They are categorised as an Other Backward Class.

Gaudas, Kunbis, Velip and another shepherd tribe called the Dhangar, have organised themselves into an aboriginal focussed network, called The Gauda, Kunbi, Velip and Dhangar Federation or in short GAKUVED. Another Adivasi-rights resource center MAND also works for their betterment.