Picunche

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The Pincunche (a mapudungun word meaning "North People") were a Chilean people living to the north of the "mapuche" or Araucanians and south of the Diaguitas.

Agriculture

Their primary crops consisted of corn and potatoes, and they lived in wooden houses. They were part of the Incan empire at the time when the first Spaniards arrived in Chile.

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