Waata (au Waat, Watha) ni kabila lenye asili ya Kikhoisan linalokalia tangu kale pwani ya Kenya (kaunti ya Tana River na kaunti ya Lamu). Wanakadiriwa kuwa 13,000. Lugha mama yao ni Kiwaata, mojawapo kati ya lugha za Kikushi. Wana undugu wa asili na Waaweer na Wadahalo nao wote wanaitwa Wasanye. Martin Walsh, 1992/1993. The Vuna and the Degere: Remnants and Outcasts among the Duruma and Digo of Kenya and Tanzania. Bulletin of the International Committee on Urgent Anthropological and Ethnological Research 34/35: 133–147. www.watha.org