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Mapuche
Mapuche are the Indigenous inhabitants of Central and Southern Chile and Southern Argentina. They were known as araucanos "Araucanians" by the Spaniards but this is now considered pejorative by the people and the term Mapuche is the one most often used by people in conversation and in the media in Chile and Argentina and is the one preferred by them. Contrary to popular belief, the Quechua word awqa "rebel, enemy", is probably not the root of araucano: the latter is more likely derived from the placename rag ko (Spanish Arauco) "clayey water" Mapuche o Araucano [http://escuela.med.puc.cl/publ/ArsMedica/ArsMedica4/08Zuniga.html ''Antecedentes historicos del pueblo ...
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