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Quechua woman with llamas in the Department of Cuzco Girl, wearing indigenous clothing, with llama near Plaza de Armas in Cusco. Quechua people cultivate and eat a variety of foods. They domesticated potatoes, which originated in the region, and cultivated thousands of potato varieties, which are used for food and medicine. Climate change is ...
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Quechua may refer to: Quechua people , several Indigenous ethnic groups in South America, especially in Peru Quechuan languages , an Indigenous South American language family spoken primarily in the Andes, derived from a common ancestral language
The term Southern Quechua refers to the Quechuan varieties spoken in regions of the Andes south of a line roughly east–west between the cities of Huancayo and Huancavelica in central Peru. It includes the Quechua varieties spoken in the regions of Ayacucho, Cusco and Puno in Peru, in much of Bolivia and parts of north-west Argentina. The most ...
The Inca army (Quechua: Inka Awqaqkuna) was the multi-ethnic armed forces [1] used by the Tawantin Suyu to expand its empire and defend the sovereignty of the Sapa Inca in its territory. [2] Thanks to the military mit'a, as the empire grew in size and population, so did the army, reaching 200,000 men in a single army (during the reign of Huayna ...
Q'ero (spelled Q'iru in the official three-vowel Quechua orthography) is a Quechua-speaking community or ethnic group dwelling in the province of Paucartambo, in the Cusco Region of Peru. The Q'ero became more widely known due to the 1955 ethnological expedition of Dr. Oscar Nuñez del Prado of the San Antonio Abad National University in Cusco ...
Ayacucho (also called Chanca or Chanka after the local Chanka ethnicity that dominated the area before the Inca conquest) is a variety of Southern Quechua spoken in the Ayacucho Region, Peru, as well as by immigrants from Ayacucho in Lima.
The southern branch of Huanca people are called the Wanka Waylla Quechua and Southern Huancayo Quechua. [1] The Jauja Wanka are also called Wanka Jauja Quechua and Shawsha Wanka Quechua people. [ 2 ] They gave their name to the Peruvian football team Deportivo Wanka .