Argentina Ancestry and Immigration
The ten most populous indigenous peoples in Argentina are the Mapuche (113,680 people), the
Kolla (70,505), the Toba (69,452), the Guaraní (68,454), the Wichi (40,036), the DiaguitaCalchaquí (31,753), the Mocoví (15,837),...
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Argentina Ancestry and Immigration
The ten most populous indigenous peoples in Argentina are the Mapuche (113,680 people), the
Kolla (70,505), the Toba (69,452), the Guaraní (68,454), the Wichi (40,036), the DiaguitaCalchaquí (31,753), the Mocoví (15,837), the Huarpe (14,633), the Comechingón (10,863) and the
Tehuelche (10,590).
Minor but important peoples are the Quechua (6,739), the Charrúa (4,511), the
Pilagá (4,465), the Chané (4,376), and the Chorote (2,613).
The Tehuelches inhabited from the Colorado River to the Magellanic channels.
They were nomads,
spoke the Ken group language and were hunters of guanacos and ostriches.
The mapuches (name
meaning people from the land) originally inhabited Chilean territory.
In the 18th
century, driven by
the Spanish invasion, they learned to ride horses and moved to other lands.
They entered the
argentine Patagonia, which marked the beginning of the agony of the Tehuelche population.
They
occupied northern Patagonia and the south of the
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