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The Indigenous peoples of Peru or Native Peruvians (Spanish: Peruanos Nativos) comprise a large number of ethnic groups who inhabit territory in present-day Peru. Indigenous cultures developed here for thousands of years before the arrival of the Spanish in 1532.
This image is of a Machiguenga woman who is dressed in traditional garb. Photo taken in the Pangoa province of Peru. The Machiguenga (also Matsigenka, Matsigenga [A 1]) are an indigenous people who live in the high jungle, or montaña, area on the eastern slopes of the Andes and in the Amazon Basin jungle regions of southeastern Peru.
While a few Indian cultural activities are organised, in general, the Indian community in Peru maintained a low profile. Due to the vast distance that separates the community from India, the interest in their country of origin is limited to major events, mainly derived from occasional browsing on the internet.
The speakers of Quechua total some 5.1 million people in Peru, 1.8 million in Bolivia, 2.5 million in Ecuador (Hornberger and King, 2001), and according to Ethnologue (2006) 33,800 in Chile, 55,500 in Argentina, and a few hundred in Brazil. Only a slight sense of common identity exists among these speakers spread all over Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador.
The Moche civilization (Spanish pronunciation:; alternatively, the Moche culture or the Early, Pre- or Proto-Chimú) flourished in northern Peru with its capital near present-day Moche, Trujillo, Peru [1] [2] from about 100 to 800 AD during the Regional Development Epoch. While this issue is the subject of some debate, many scholars contend ...
The Peruvian government has banned contact with the Nomole for fear that they might be infected by strangers with diseases to which the Nomole have not built up immunity. [16] The Nomole-Piro language is similar to the Yine language, and members of nearby Yine communities are able to communicate with the Nomole. Yine villages will often plant ...
Inside Kuélap Walls of Soloco fortress, Chachapoyas, Peru. The Chachapoyas, also called the "Warriors of the Clouds", were a culture of the Andes living in the cloud forests of the southern part of the Department of Amazonas of present-day Peru. The Inca Empire conquered their civilization shortly before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century.
Accounts of the Urarina peoples are limited to the data reported by Castillo, [6] by the German ethnologist G. Tessmann in his Die Indianer Nordost-Peru, [7] and to the observations of missionaries and contemporary adventure seekers. The Urarina are a semi-mobile hunting and horticultural society whose population is estimated to be around 2,000 ...