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  2. Indigenous peoples in Argentina - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known evidence of indigenous peoples in Argentina is dated 11,000 BC [6] and was discovered in what is now known as the Piedra Museo archaeological site in Santa Cruz Province. The Cueva de las Manos , also in Santa Cruz, is over 10,000 years old. [ 7 ]

  3. Guaraní people - Wikipedia

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    The Guarani are a group of culturally-related indigenous peoples of South America.They are distinguished from the related Tupi by their use of the Guarani language.The traditional range of the Guarani people is in what is now Paraguay between the Paraná River and lower Paraguay River, the Misiones Province of Argentina, southern Brazil once as far east as Rio de Janeiro, and parts of Uruguay ...

  4. Ava Guaraní people - Wikipedia

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    The Ava Guaraní are an Indigenous peoples formerly known as Chiriguanos or Chiriguano Indians who speak the Ava Guarani and Eastern Bolivian Guaraní languages. Noted for their warlike character, the Chiriguanos retained their lands in the Andes foothills of southeastern Bolivia from the 16th to the 19th centuries by fending off, first, the ...

  5. List of organisms with names derived from Indigenous ...

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    Guarani or Tupi: Probably from agutí, agoutí, or acutí, names for the animal, via French. In Brazilian Portuguese acutí is pronounced acuchí. [citation needed] Agouti (Dasyprocta) rodent: Guarani or Tupi: From agutí, agoutí, or acutí, names for the animal. [6] Ahytherium † ground sloth: Tupi: From Ahy ("sloth") and Greek therion ...

  6. Querandí - Wikipedia

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    The Querandí were one of the Het peoples, indigenous South Americans who lived in the Pampas area of Argentina; specifically, they were the eastern Didiuhet. The name Querandí was given by the Guaraní people, as they would consume animal fat in their daily diet. Thus, Querandí means "men with fat".

  7. Mbyá Guaraní people - Wikipedia

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    The familial groups who travel outside the villages and indigenous territories in Argentina and Brazil usually make their living by selling handicrafts, products that reference Mbyá material culture and cosmology, and by providing agricultural labor for private landowners. When they establish themselves in a particular location, they are also ...

  8. Ethnic groups of Argentina - Wikipedia

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    German immigration to Argentina occurred during five main time periods: pre–1870, 1870–1914, 1918–1933, 1933–1940 and post–1945. Argentina and Germany have long had close ties to each other. A flourishing trade developed between them as early as the German Unification, and Germany had a privileged position in the Argentine economy.

  9. Guanaco - Wikipedia

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    Estimates, as of 2016, place their numbers around 1.5 to 2 million animals: 1,225,000–1,890,000 in Argentina, 270,000–299,000 in Chile, 3,000 in Peru, 150–200 in Bolivia and 20–100 in Paraguay. This is only 3–7% of the guanaco population before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors in South America.