• Chanka (redirect from Chancas)
    contemporary nickname of "Vampires of the Andes". The economy of the Uran Chancas was based primarily on agricultural crops and animals. They grew various...
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  • Chanca or Chanka may refer to: Chanca people, an ethnic group of Peru Chanca Quechua, a language of Peru Chhanka, a mountain in Peru Cerro Chanka, a lava...
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    Chanca piedra Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Clade: Tracheophytes Clade: Angiosperms Clade: Eudicots Clade: Rosids Order: Malpighiales Family:...
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  • The Los Chancas mine is a large copper mine located in the Apurímac Region of southern Peru. Los Chancas represents one of the largest copper reserves...
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    conquered the Chancas c. 1380 Yáhuar Huácac, the seventh Sapa Inca of the Kingdom of Cuzco, abandoned the capital in an attack by the Chancas c. 1410 — c...
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  • "Nymphargus chancas". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T54953A89198212. Retrieved 23 December 2022. Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Nymphargus chancas (Duellman...
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    Diego Álvarez Chanca (c. 1463 – c. 1515) was a Spanish physician who accompanied Christopher Columbus on his second voyage. Chanca was a physician-in-ordinary...
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    the hurin section of Cuzco. In legend, he is said to have conquered the Chancas (among other peoples), as well as established the yachaywasi, schools for...
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    in popularity in England around the 1780s as an appetizer. Diego Álvarez Chanca brought back chili peppers from the Americas to Spain in 1493. He had sailed...
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    The Inca-Chanka war was a military conflict fought between Cusco and the Chanka chiefdom around 1438. It is the final conflict between these two people...
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  • Pocras were inseparable allies of the Hanan Chancas ethnic group. Data on the origin of the Hanan Chancas, or Kingdom of Parkos, shows the entire ethnic...
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    stonemasons, metalworkers, and farmers. Among the expedition members were Alvarez Chanca, a physician who wrote a detailed account of the second voyage; Juan Ponce...
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  • Sakari Momoi 5 February 1903 5 July 2015 112 years, 150 days Japan 41 Victor Chanca Santos 14 June 1910 9 November 2022 112 years, 148 days Peru 42 Gisaburō...
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    The name of Pachacuti was given to him after he conquered the Tribe of Chancas during the Inca-Chanka war (modern Apurímac). During his reign, he and...
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    Wila Ch'ankha (redirect from Wila Chanca)
    (Aymara wila red, ch'ankha wool cord, "red cord", Hispanicized spelling Wila Chanca) is a 4,701-metre-high (15,423 ft) mountain located in the Andes in Bolivia...
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  • Ayacucho (also called Chanca or Chanka after the local Chanka ethnicity that dominated the area before the Inca conquest) is a variety of Southern Quechua...
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    rugged mountainous region on the western end of the island. Diego Álvarez Chanca, a physician on Columbus's second voyage, also noted that “Ayiti” or Haïti...
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    Quechua dialect spoken today in the Huancayo area) and the Chanka (the Chanca dialect of Ayacucho) of Peru, and the Kañari (Cañari) in Ecuador. Quechua...
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    their representation as miniature figurines most commonly referred to as chancas or conopas. Conopa were often natural or carved stone objects that resembled...
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    an account of Columbus's second voyage by his physician, Diego Álvarez Chanca, while in Guadeloupe. José R. Oliver writes that the Natives of Borinquén...
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    Chanza River (redirect from Chança River)
    The Chanza River (Chança in Portuguese) is a river on the Iberian Peninsula. The river arises in the Aracena Mountains in Spain and later forms part of...
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    tribes of several regions originating among the Quechua and Aymaras. The Chancas, originally from Choclococha and Huancavelica, settled in the region of...
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    firsthand account of cannibal customs in the Caribbean comes from Diego Álvarez Chanca, who accompanied Christopher Columbus on his second voyage. His description...
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    there for two days, 20 and 21 November 1493. Fleet member Diego Álvarez Chanca recounts that as they sailed along the southern coast of Puerto Rico, a...
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    Compañón. Its beginnings date back to the explorations of the Pocras and Chancas (old cultures of the Ayacucho region) who, when being conquered by the...
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    powerful Chancas were greater threats and the Inca army had to confront them on a number of occasions. This period started with the defeat of the Chancas, with...
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  • 58% 85 UD 77 Taxonera 1 26 3 1 22 34 125 -91 7 13.46% 86 AD Virgen de la Chanca 1 20 0 4 16 17 93 -76 4 10% 87 UE Deltebre 1 26 1 2 23 29 164 -135 4 7.69%...
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    Inca administrative center, established after the Incas conquered the Chancas and the Pocras. According to the Chronicler Pedro Cieza de León, Vilcashuamán...
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  • Chhanka (redirect from Cerro Chanca)
    Chhanka (Quechua for cliff, hispanicized spelling Chanca) is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about 5,050 m (16,570 ft) high. It is located in the Lima...
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    but not so large: but I think it was a species of laurel. — Diego Álvarez Chanca, January 1494 The white bark, the brilliant deep green foliage, and crimson...
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