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Gardi Sugdub, also spelled Cartí Sugtupu, [2] is an island in the San Blas Archipelago in the Panamanian comarca indígena of Guna Yala, 400m long and 150m wide. [1] It is the southernmost and largest of four populated Carti Islands (the others are Cartí Tupile in the north, Carti Yandup in the west, and Carti Muladub in the east), [3] and lies 1200 meters off the northern coast of mainland ...
Rapa Nui National Park, located 3,700 km (2,300 mi) west of the coast in the Pacific Ocean, is outside the map. The sites of the Inca road system , with 33 locations in Chile, are not shown. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites are places of importance to cultural or natural heritage ...
Chile has attempted to develop hydropower projects in indigenous territory where the rivers that the energy companies hope to use are sacred to the Mapuche people. One area impacted by hydropower development is the Puelwillimapu Territory, whose interconnected waterways are referred to as the watershed of Wenuleufu or the ‘River Above ...
Historia De Chile (in Spanish)(14th ed.). Editorial Universitaria. ISBN 956-11-1163-2. Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, Comentarios reales, Segunda Parte : Libro VII, Cap. 18, 19, 20. Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche, Descripcion Histórico Geografía del Reino de Chile (Description Historical Geography of the Kingdom of Chile), PDF E Libros from Memoria ...
The royal Inca road entered Chile from Bolivia through what is now the international border crossing of Tambo Quemado (Quechua tampu inn, [5] Spanish quemado burnt, "burnt inn") on the Bolivian side and Chungara on the Chilean side, while a twin branch that runs parallel to it follows the coast from Peru and passes mostly through lower lying terrain.
They did not survive as a separate society into the present day, because of a general population decline and having been absorbed into the general Chilean population during the colonial period. The indigenous Picunche disappeared by a process of mestizaje by gradually abandoning their villages ( pueblo de indios ) to settle in nearby Spanish ...
Los Restos Indígenas de Pichilemu (The Indigenous Remains of Pichilemu) was a 1908 book published by Chilean historian José Toribio Medina. Medina presents a report of his examination to indigenous rests found in a Pichilemu grotto (currently named Virgin's Grotto — Spanish : Gruta de la Virgen ) by Agustín Ross and Evaristo Merino in 1908.
The Changos, also known as Camanchacos or Camanchangos, [1] are an Indigenous people or group of peoples who inhabited a long stretch of the Pacific coast from southern Peru to north-central Chile, including the coast of the Atacama Desert. Although much of the customs and culture of the Chango people have disappeared and in many cases they ...