Huarpe
The Huarpes or Warpes are an indigenous people of Argentina, living in the Cuyo region. Some scholars assume that in the Huarpe language, this word means "sandy ground," but according to Arte y Vocabulario de la lengua general del Reino de Chile, written by Andrés Febrés in Lima in 1765, the word Cuyo comes from Araucanian cuyum puulli, meaning "sandy land" or "desert country".
Member of the Milkayak Huarpe ethnicity | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Argentina (Cuyo) | |
| Argentina | 34,279 |
| Languages | |
| Spanish; formerly Quechua and Huarpe | |
| Religion | |
| traditional tribal religion | |
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