The Aconcagua people inhabited Central Chile, from the Aconcagua River in the north to the Cachapoal River in the south, although they were concentrated in the Maipo and…
History
…Bulnes in 1843, however, Chile began to exercise its possession by colonizing the area, which included the Magallanes region and the southern islands. From that time onward the Kawésqar were…
Social organization
…At its height, Rapa Nui society was organized into territorial clans, each with its own lineage that included several extended families. The clans were governed by a powerful religious…
History
…nobility and priest-elders, warriors and stone and wood craftsmen. He also brought the household items, plants and animals needed to sustain the settlers. Rapa Nui’s prehistory, history and present day…
Settlement pattern
…itself was covered with leaves, skins and bark to keep out the wind. As covering materials were not easily obtained, the people took them along in the dalca when they…
Settlement patterns
…from keñua wood. It contains separate modules for the kitchen, sleeping area, and food storage, and its door points eastward. The structure is windowless, to keep out the cold. The…
Settlement pattern
…campo (field), where livestock graze and a small lodge is kept for temporary shelter; and finally the cerro (mountain), the wilderness area where locals collect plants and firewood, hunt, and…
Environment and Location
…The Aymara are dispersed over a vast area that contains a number of ecological and political sectors: the shores of Lake Titicaca, the Bolivian altiplano, the far north of…
History
…Patagonia, and their favorable adaptation launched the colonization of the area. In 1878, the Argentine government began to grant concessions regularly to colonists, and by 1884-1885 ranches were being established…
Arid North
…to the coast; they then marched through the valleys of Moquegua, Locumba, Sama and Tacna, resting in the area of Arica. They crossed the coastal desert plain on the way…
Economy
…by llama caravan, a form of transportation suited to this mountainous region. During this period, the people expanded the area available for growing by building farming terraces and platforms, along…
History
…and perfected their ancestral way of life. The increasing complexity of the societies of the Atacameña area, which was closely tied to the traffic of goods with llama caravans, strongly…
Organización Social
…The Bato lived in fairly independent family groups, each of which ranged over an extensive area. Despite this singular existence, they shared ideological elements with other groups, indicating their…
History
…It is not clear how the first maritime hunters or canoeist groups arrived in these lands in the extreme South of Chile. One theory suggests that the area was…
Far South
…by the Puelche and the Poya, semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer peoples. Between 1551 and 1553, Pedro de Valdivia sent Jerónimo de Alderete and Francisco Villagra here to explore the area of Nahuelhuapi,…
Semi-Arid North
…Copiapó. The indigenous uprising of 1548–1549 marked a milestone for Spanish control of the area. Francisco de Aguirre rebuilt the city of La Serena and was able to keep the…
Rapa Nui
…the area he seriously disrupted Spanish colonial commercial traffic. On one of his voyages to Polynesia, in 1687, he saw an island but did not land on it. Back in…
Settlement pattern
…by walls, called a kancha, inside which they built structures that served different functions. The kancha also had a central plaza-like area that the buildings within the enclosure opened onto….