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==Agriculture==
==Agriculture==
Their primary crops consisted of corn and potatoes, and they lived in wooden houses. The Picunche living north of [[Promaucaes]] were part of the [[Incan]] empire at the time when the first [[Spaniards]] arrived in Chile.
Their primary crops consisted of corn and potatoes, and they lived in wooden houses.


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 21:47, 26 February 2008

The Pincunche (a mapudungun word meaning "North People")[1] were a Chilean people living to the north of the "mapuche" or Araucanians and south of the Diaguitas. Until the Conquest of Chile the Itata was the natural limit between the Mapuche, located to the south, and Picunche, to the north.

Agriculture

Their primary crops consisted of corn and potatoes, and they lived in wooden houses.

References

  1. ^ Elliott, Lilian Elwyn (1922). Chile Today and Tomorrow. Macmillan. pp. Page 312.