Andean peoples: Quick Facts

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Map of South America and the Caribbean showing the distribution of Aboriginal cultural groups, with regions color-coded by cultural type including Andean, Central American, tropical forest, and various nomadic cultures such as aquatic nomads, forest hunters and gatherers, and shellfish gatherers. Major group names are labeled across the continent and surrounding islands.

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northern Andean Indian Arhuaco Quimbaya Timote Chibcha Tsáchila Patángoro Chocó Caquetío Páez South American forest Indian South American nomad Inca Quechua Araucanian Aymara Guaraní Pijao Warao Ge