The Huarpes or Warpes are an Indigenous people of Argentina, living in the Cuyo region. Some scholars assume that in the Huarpe language, this word means "sandy ground,"
History
Huarpe people settled in permanent villages beginning in the 5th century CE. About 50 to 100 people lived in a village, making them smaller than
Diaguita settlements. They were agrarian people who grew corn (
Zea mays), beans, squash, and quinoa (
Chenopodium quinoa).
[Lewis 18] Towards the 15th century, Huarpe territory expanded into the current Argentinian provinces of San Luis,
Mendoza Province and San Juan and even on the north of the
Neuquen Province. They inhabited between the Jáchal River at north, to the
Diamante River at south and between the
Andes and
Conlara Valley on San Luis.
They were never fully part of the
Incan Empire, but were influenced by Inca culture and adopted llama ranching and the
Quechua language after 1480.
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Chilean encomenderos who had in Cuyo introduced to Chile Indigenous Huarpes, whom they hired to other Spaniards without encomiendas.[ Villalobos, Sergio; Osvaldo Silva; Silva, Fernando and Estelle, Patricio. 1974. Historia De Chile. Editorial Universitaria, Chile. p 166–170.]
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