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Indigenous peoples in Peru
The Indigenous peoples in Peru (pueblos indigenas in Spanish) comprise a large number of distinct ethnic groups who inhabited the country's present territory prior to its discovery by Europeans around 1500. Like Christopher Columbus, who thought he had reached the East Indies, the first Spanish explorers called them indios ("Indians"), a name that is still used today in Peru.
At the time of European discovery, the indigenous peoples of the Amazon were traditionally mostly semi-nomadic tribes who subsisted on hunting, fishing, gathering, and migrant agriculture. Many of the estimated 2000 nations and tribes which existed in 1500 died out as ...
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