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This a category for indigenous groups living in the Andean region, including the Central Andes (Central Highlands, North Coast, Southern Highlands), the Northern Andes, and Southern Andes. Precolumbian Andean cultures are typically categorized in Category:Andean civilizations.
The Andean civilizations were South American complex societies of many indigenous people. [1] They stretched down the spine of the Andes for 4,000 km (2,500 miles) from southern Colombia, to Ecuador and Peru, including the deserts of coastal Peru, to north Chile and northwest Argentina.
This is a category of individual Indigenous people from the Andean region, including the Pacific lowlands. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Andean culture is a collective term used to refer to the indigenous peoples of the Andes mountains [citation needed] especially those that came under the influence of the Inca Empire [citation needed]. Cultures considered Andean include: Atacama people; Aymara people; Muisca people or Chibcha; Andean civilizations; Quechua people; Uru people ...
The following is a list of indigenous peoples of ... Pequi people, western ... Argentinian and Chilean Andes; Tehuelche, Patagonia. Künün-a-Güna (Gennakenk ...
According to the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics, out of a 31,237,385 population, the Indigenous people in Peru represent about 25.7%. Of those, 95.8% are Andean and 3.3% from the Amazon. [2] Other sources indicate that the Indigenous people comprise 31% of the total population. [5] [6]
The Aymara or Aimara (Aymara: aymara, listen ⓘ), people are an indigenous people in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America.Approximately 2.3 million Aymara live in northwest Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.
In the 16th century, Spanish colonisers from Europe arrived in the Andes, eventually subjugating the indigenous kingdoms and incorporating the Andean region into the Spanish Empire. In the 19th century, a rising tide of anti-imperialist nationalism that was sweeping all of South America led rebel armies to overthrow Spanish rule.