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The
Picunche (a
mapudungun word meaning "North People"), also referred to as
picones by the Spanish, were a mapudungun speaking
Chilean people living to the north of the "
Mapuche" or Araucanians (a name given to those Mapuche living between the
Itata and
Toltén Rivers) 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. During the Inca attempt to conquer Chile the southern Picunche peoples that successfully resisted them were later known as the
Promaucaes.
The Picunche living north of the Promaucaes, were called
Quillotanes (those living in the
Aconcagua River valley north to the Choapa) and
Mapochoes (those living in the
Maipo River basin) by the Spanish, and were part of the
Inca Empire at the time when the first
Spaniards arrived in Chile.
Among the peoples the Spanish called the Promaucaes the people of the
Rapel River valley were particularly called by this name by the Spanish . Those of the
Mataquito River valley were called the Curis . The people in the
Maule River valley and to the south were distinguished as
maules and those to the south of the Maules and north of the Itata were known as Cauqui by the Inca or
cauquenes that gave their name to
Cauquenes River.
Agriculture
The Picunches primary crops consisted of corn and potatoes, and they lived in wooden houses.
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