Picunche

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The Picunche (a

The Picunche living north of the Promaucaes were called Quillotanes

Among the peoples the Spanish called the Promaucaes, the people of the Rapel River valley were particularly called by this name by the Spanish.^[3] Those of the Mataquito River valley were called the Cures.^[3] The people in the Maule River valley and to the south were distinguished as Maules and those to the south of the Maules and north of the Itata were known as Cauqui by the Inca^[4] and Cauquenes by the Spanish^[3] and that gave their name to Cauquenes River.

They did not survive as a separate society into the present day, because of a general population decline and having been absorbed into the general Chilean population during the colonial period.

The indigenous Picunche disappeared by a process of mestizaje by gradually abandoning their villages (

Agriculture

The Picunches' primary crops consisted of corn and potatoes, and they lived in thatched-roof adobe houses.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. ^ Elliott, Lilian Elwyn (1922). Chile Today and Tomorrow. Macmillan. p. 312. Picunche -wikipedia people.
2. ^ Juan Ignacio Molina, Compendio de la historia civil del reyno de Chile, pg. 9. Named for Quillota, one of the settlements of the Inca Empire in Chile.
3. ^ ^{a b c} Juan Ignacio Molina, Compendio de la historia civil del reyno de Chile, pg. 9.
4. ^ Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Comentarios reales, 2da_VII_20 20
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6. ^ Villalobos et al. 1974, pp. 166–170.
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