Pucará

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pucará a term that refers to the ruins of all the fortifications made by the natives of the central Andean cultures (that is to say: from Ecuador to the Central Valley of Chile and the Argentine Northwest) and particularly to those of the Inca. The Spanish also refered to Mapuche earthen forts in the Arauco War by this term.