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The Picunche (a 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 ....
word meaning "North People"), also referred to as picones by the Spanish, were a mapudungun speaking Chilean people living to the north of the "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....
" or Araucania

Araucania

Araucan?a or Araucana was the Spanish language name given to the region of Chile inhabited by the Mapuche peoples known as the Moluche in the 18th century....
ns (a name given to those Mapuche living between the Itata

Itata River

The Itata River flows in the B?o-B?o Region, southern Chile.Until the Conquest of Chile the Itata was the natural limit between the Mapuche, located to the south, and Picunche, to the north....
and Toltén

Toltén

Tolt?n is a Chilean commune located at the lower flows Tolt?n River at the southern coast of Caut?n Province which is part of Araucan?a Region. The commune is administered by the municipality in Nueva Tolt?n located within the commune, that is the main harbour and town within the commune....
Rivers) and south of the Choapa River

Choapa River

Choapa River or El R?o Choapa is a List of rivers in Chile located in the Coquimbo Region. The river rises in the Andes, at the confluence of the streams Totoral, Leiva and Del Valle....
and the Diaguitas. Until the Conquest of Chile the Itata was the natural limit between the Mapuche

Mapuche

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The Picunche (a mapudungun

Mapudungun

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....
" or Araucania

Araucania

Itata River

Toltén

Choapa River

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....
, located to the south, and Picunche, to the north. During the Inca attempt to conquer Chile the southern Picunche peoples that successfully resisted them were later known as the Promaucaes

Promaucaes

Promaucaes, Promaucas or Purumaucas ; pre-Columbian Mapuche tribal group that lived in the present territory of Chile, south of the Maipo River basin of Santiago, Chile and the Itata River, ....
.

The Picunche living north of the Promaucaes, were called Quillotanes (those living in the Aconcagua River

Aconcagua River

The Aconcagua River is a river in Chile that rises from the joint of two minor tributary rivers at above sea level in the Andes, Juncal river from the east and Blanco river from the south east....
valley north to the Choapa) and Mapochoes
Mapochoes

Mapochoes were the name given by the Spanish to the Picunche tribes living north of the Promaucaes in Chile, in the area of the Maipo River basin of Santiago, Chile and south of the Choapa River that had been part of the Inca Empire at the time the Spanish first came into Chile....
(those living in the Maipo River

Maipo River

Maipo River is the main river flowing through Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile. Its headwaters are on the west slope of Maipo volcano, in the Andes....
basin) by the Spanish, and were part of the Inca Empire

Inca Empire

The Inca Empire was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political and military center of the empire was located in Cuzco in modern-day Peru....
at the time when the first Spaniards arrived in Chile.

Among the peoples the Spanish called the Promaucaes the people of the Rapel River

Rapel River

Rapel River is a List of rivers in Chile located in the O'Higgins Region. It begins at the confluence of the rivers Cachapoal River and Tinguiririca River in the area known as La Junta....
valley were particularly called by this name by the Spanish . Those of the Mataquito River

Mataquito River

Mataquito is a river located in the Curic? Province, Maule Region of Chile and formed by the union of rivers Teno River and Lontu? River about 10 kilometers west of Curic? near the locality of Sagrada Familia, Chile and empties into the Pacific Ocean south of the town of Iloca , Licant?n....
valley were called the Cures . The people in the Maule River

Maule river

The Maule river is one of the most important rivers of Chile and is inextricably linked to this country's pre-Hispanic times, the country's conquest, Colonialism period, Chilean Independence, History of Chile, agriculture , culture , religion, economy and politics....
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 and Cauquenes
Cauquenes

Cauquenes, a city in Chile, is the capital of Cauquenes Province and is located in the Maule Region....
by the Spanish and that gave their name to Cauquenes River

Cauquenes river

The Cauquenes River is a tributary of the Perquilauqu?n River, and traverses Cauquenes Province, in the Maule Region of Chile. It is born in the Cordillera de la Costa, near Cauquenes....
.

Agriculture

The Picunches primary crops consisted of corn and potatoes, and they lived in wooden houses.