Quechuas

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Quechua
Total population

8 million

Regions with significant populations
Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador.
Languages
Quechua, Spanish
Religions
Catholicism adapted to traditional Andean beliefs
Related ethnic groups
Aymaras

Quechuas is the term used for several ethnic groups in¨South America that use a Quechua language (Southern Quechua mainly), belonging to several ethnic groups in South America, above all in Peru, Bolivia and Argentina.

The Quechuas of Ecuador call themselves - as well as their language Kichwa - Kichwas or Quichuas. The Kichwa-speaking group of Colombia are the Ingas.

Some (historic) Quechua peoples:

  • Inca
  • Chancas (in Huancavelica, Ayacucho y Apurímac)
  • Huancas (in Junín; spoke Quechua before the Incas did)
  • Cañaris (in Ecuador; adopted the Quechua language from the Incas)

[edit] Quechua ethnic flag

The Quechua Flag
The Quechua Flag

There is a Quechua ethnic flag, which is displayed at left. [1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Information about the Quechua flag:

[edit] See also

  • Q'ero (an Andean Quechua community)
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