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The Cuncos are a sedentary native Chilean people, belonging to the southern group of Mapuche
Mapuche

The Mapuche are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas inhabitants of Central and Southern Chile and Southern Argentina. They were known as Araucanians by the Spaniards....
 peoples, and that inhabited the coasts of Chile
Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
 from Valdivia
Valdivia, Chile

Valdivia is a city and commune in southern Chile administered by the Municipality of Valdivia. The city is named after its founder Pedro de Valdivia and is located at the confluence of the Calle-Calle River, Valdivia River and Cau-Cau River Rivers, approximately 15 km east of the coastal towns of Corral, Chile and Niebla, Chile....
 to the Chacao Channel
Chacao Channel

The Chacao Channel is located in Los Lagos Region, Chile and separates the island of Chilo? Island from mainland Chile. The channel was created during the Quaternary glaciations by successive glaciers that flowed down fron the Andes to the coast....
, including the inhabitants of the northern portion of Chiloé Island
Chiloé Island

Chilo? Island , also known as Greater Island of Chilo? , is the largest island of Chilo? Archipelago off the coast of Chile, in the Pacific Ocean....
 and the bordering islands. They spoke the mapudungun
Mapudungun

Mapudungun is a language isolate spoken in central Chile and west central Argentina by the Mapuche people. It is also known as Mapudungu, Mapuche, and Araucanian ....
 language, common to all the Mapuche peoples. They had a developed agriculture
Agriculture

Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....
, specializing in the culture of potato
Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial plant Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family. The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well....
es and maize
Maize

Maize , known as corn in some countries, is a cereal domesticated in Mesoamerica and subsequently spread throughout the American continents....
 along with fishing
Fishing

Fishing is the activity of catching fish. Fishing techniques include Fish net, Fish trap, Spearfishing, angling and Gathering seafood by hand. The term fishing may be applied to catching other aquatic animals such as different types of shellfish, squid, octopus, turtles, Edible frog and some edible marine invertebrates....
 and hunting
Hunting

Hunting is the practice of pursuing living animals for food, recreation, or trade. In present-day use, the term refers to lawful hunting, as distinguished from poaching, which is the killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species contrary to law....
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The Cuncos are a sedentary native Chilean people, belonging to the southern group of Mapuche
Mapuche

The Mapuche are the Indigenous peoples of the Americas inhabitants of Central and Southern Chile and Southern Argentina. They were known as Araucanians by the Spaniards....
 peoples, and that inhabited the coasts of Chile
Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long and narrow coastal strip wedged between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean....
 from Valdivia
Valdivia, Chile

Valdivia is a city and commune in southern Chile administered by the Municipality of Valdivia. The city is named after its founder Pedro de Valdivia and is located at the confluence of the Calle-Calle River, Valdivia River and Cau-Cau River Rivers, approximately 15 km east of the coastal towns of Corral, Chile and Niebla, Chile....
 to the Chacao Channel
Chacao Channel

The Chacao Channel is located in Los Lagos Region, Chile and separates the island of Chilo? Island from mainland Chile. The channel was created during the Quaternary glaciations by successive glaciers that flowed down fron the Andes to the coast....
, including the inhabitants of the northern portion of Chiloé Island
Chiloé Island

Chilo? Island , also known as Greater Island of Chilo? , is the largest island of Chilo? Archipelago off the coast of Chile, in the Pacific Ocean....
 and the bordering islands. They spoke the mapudungun
Mapudungun

Mapudungun is a language isolate spoken in central Chile and west central Argentina by the Mapuche people. It is also known as Mapudungu, Mapuche, and Araucanian ....
 language, common to all the Mapuche peoples. They had a developed agriculture
Agriculture

Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....
, specializing in the culture of potato
Potato

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial plant Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family. The word potato may refer to the plant itself as well....
es and maize
Maize

Maize , known as corn in some countries, is a cereal domesticated in Mesoamerica and subsequently spread throughout the American continents....
 along with fishing
Fishing

Fishing is the activity of catching fish. Fishing techniques include Fish net, Fish trap, Spearfishing, angling and Gathering seafood by hand. The term fishing may be applied to catching other aquatic animals such as different types of shellfish, squid, octopus, turtles, Edible frog and some edible marine invertebrates....
 and hunting
Hunting

Hunting is the practice of pursuing living animals for food, recreation, or trade. In present-day use, the term refers to lawful hunting, as distinguished from poaching, which is the killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species contrary to law....
. In addition they used sturdy wooden boats, calls dalcas, with which they crossed their coastal waters in search of fish and seafood.