The Charca villagers were an
Aymara speaking indigenous ethnic group who lived in what is called today El Departamento de Chuquisaca in Bolivia. Before the 15th century they were citizens of the Inca Empire. They regularly suffered from invasions of the people of ''ava guarani'' (who spoke an Aymaran language) that inhabited the
Chuquisaca Department of
Bolivia
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prior to the arrival of the
Spaniard
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s. They also suffered from incursions of the
Chiriguanos.
Portuguese
conquistador
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Aleixo Garcia
Aleixo Garcia, also known in Spanish as Alejo GarcĂa, (died 1525) was a Portuguese explorer and conquistador in service to Spain. He was a castaway who lived in Brazil and explored Paraguay and Bolivia. On a raiding expedition with a GuaranĂ ...
is believed to be the first
European to make contact with the Charcas in the year 1525.
The city of
Sucre
Sucre (; ) is the ''de jure'' capital city of Bolivia, the capital of the Chuquisaca Department and the sixth most populous city in Bolivia. Located in the south-central part of the country, Sucre lies at an elevation of . This relatively high ...
was founded in 1538 in the land of the Charcas.
See also
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Aymara people
The Aymara or Aimara (, ) people are an Indigenous people in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America. Approximately 2.3 million Aymara live in northwest Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. The ancestors of the Aymara lived in the reg ...
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Aymara language
Aymara (; also ) is an Aymaran languages, Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Bolivian Andes. It is one of only a handful of Indigenous languages of the Americas, Native American languages with over one million speakers.The other ...
External links
Sucre's background in the World Heritage List
Aymara people
Indigenous peoples in Bolivia
Prehistory of Bolivia
People from Chuquisaca Department
Colonial Bolivia
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