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The Huarpes or Warpes are an
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of
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, living in the Cuyo region. Some scholars assume that in the Huarpe language, this word means "sandy ground," but according to ''Arte y Vocabulario de la lengua general del Reino de Chile'', written by Andrés Febrés in Lima in 1765, the word ''Cuyo'' comes from Araucanian ''cuyum puulli'', meaning "sandy land" or "desert country".


History

Huarpe people settled in permanent villages beginning in the 5th century CE. About 50 to 100 people lived in a village, making them smaller than Diaguita settlements. They were agrarian people who grew corn (''
Zea mays Maize (; ''Zea mays''), also known as corn in North American English, is a tall stout Poaceae, grass that produces cereal grain. It was domesticated by indigenous peoples of Mexico, indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 9,000 years ago ...
''), beans, squash, and quinoa ('' Chenopodium quinoa'').Lewis 18 Towards the 15th century, Huarpe territory expanded into the current Argentinian provinces of San Luis, Mendoza and San Juan and even on the north of the Neuquen Province. They inhabited between the Jáchal River at north, to the Diamante River at south and between the
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and Conlara Valley on San Luis. They were never fully part of the Incan Empire, but were influenced by Inca culture and adopted llama ranching and the
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after 1480. Chilean encomenderos who had
encomienda The ''encomienda'' () was a Spanish Labour (human activity), labour system that rewarded Conquistador, conquerors with the labour of conquered non-Christian peoples. In theory, the conquerors provided the labourers with benefits, including mil ...
s in Cuyo introduced to Chile Indigenous Huarpes, whom they hired to other Spaniards without encomiendas. Villalobos, Sergio; Silva, Osvaldo; Silva, Fernando and Estelle, Patricio. 1974. ''Historia De Chile''. Editorial Universitaria, Chile. p 166–170.


Notes


References

*Lewis, Daniel K
''The History of Argentina.''
New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2001. .


External links




Huarpe People – Encyclopædia Britannica

Discovery of a Fragment of the Printed Copy of the Work on the Millcayac ...
by Rodolfo R. Schuller
Millcayac y Allentiac: Los dialectos del idioma Huarpe
By Catalina Teresa Michieli – 1990 *
Information about the Huarpe culture
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Web site about the Huarpe culture
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Map of the Huarpes territory. {{DEFAULTSORT:Huarpe People Indigenous peoples of the Southern Cone Indigenous peoples in Argentina Indigenous peoples in Chile Pre-Columbian cultures