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Wichi
The Wichi are an indigenous people of South America. They are a large group of tribes ranging about the headwaters of the Bermejo River and the Pilcomayo River, in Argentina and Bolivia.
Notes on designation
This ethnic group was named by the English settlers and is still widely known as Mataco, a word of obscure etymology but which is cited in several sources as derogatory, and considered thus also by the Wichi. Their own word for themselves, Wichi, is pronounced , and for their language, Wichi Lhamtes .
There is a pronunciation variant in some areas of Bolivia, , where ...
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