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Picunche
The Picunche (a mapudungun word meaning "North People") were a Chilean people living to the north of the "mapuche" or Araucanians and south of the Choapa River and 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. The Picunche living north of the Promaucaes, were called mapochoes by the Spanish, and were part of the Inca Empire at the time when the first Spaniards arrived in Chile.
Agriculture
The Picunches primary crops consisted of corn and potatoes, and they lived in wooden houses. ...
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