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Promaucaes
Promaucaes, Promaucas or Purumaucas (quechua > puruma auca); pre-Columbian tribal group that lived in the present territory of Chile,
south of the Maipo River basin of Santiago, Chile and the Itata River, (those to the north were called mapochoes by the Spanish). They were speakers of mapudungun like the Mapuches to the south and part of the Picunche tribal grouping that lived north of the Itata River. The people in the Maule River valley and to the south were distinguished as maules and those on the coast to the south of the Maule were known as cauquenes.
The Incas named ...
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