May 23, 2018 · Quechua LOCATION: Peru; Ecuador; Bolivia (Central Andes regions) POPULATION: About 7.5 million LANGUAGE: Quechua RELIGION: Combination of pre …

AMAZONIAN QUECHUA RELIGIONS AMAZONIAN QUECHUA RELIGIONS . Persistent confusion permeates the comparative study of the religious beliefs and practices of the …

SOUTH AMERICAN INDIANS: INDIANS OF THE MODERN ANDES The Quechua and Aymara Indians of the Andes mountains are the largest group of Indians still existent in the New World. …

May 9, 2018 · The Aymara language is the second-most-prevalent indigenous language in the Americas, second only to the Quechua spoken by descendants of the Incas. Since colonial …

VIRACOCHA VIRACOCHA is the name or title in the Quechua language of the Inca creator god at the time of the Spanish conquest of Peru in the sixteenth century. According to Inca beliefs, …

Tahuantinsuyu Tahuantinsuyu or Tawantisuyu, the name given by the Incas to their empire. Meaning "Land of the Four Quarters," it derives from the Quechua words for "four" (tawa) and …

Huaca Huaca has a meaning that is widespread throughout the pre-Hispanic world. According to the Quechua dictionary by Fray Domingo de Santo Tomás, it means "temple of idols or the …

Chiripá Gauchos of the Río de la Plata adopted many elements of pre-Columbian culture, including clothing. The original peoples of South America developed the chiripá (a word of …

Inca Empire The origins of the Inca civilization lie in the Cuzco region of modern-day Peru, though some archaeologists maintain that its beginnings are also to be found in the region previously …

CholoCholo, term used in Ecuador, Peru, small parts of northern Argentina, and especially Bolivia as a synonym for Mestizo, specifically a person of mixed Andean and European heritage, …