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Pilagá

Pilagá, Pit´laxá, Pitelaga, Qom. Is one of the Argentine indigenous groups. Language: Pitelaga laqtak of the Guaykuru family. Habitat: Traditionally the Pilagá territory was in the central area of ​​what is now the Argentine province of Formosa, about 20,000 square kilometers on the right bank of the Pilcomayo River. For the erection of the villages, [...]

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Los Mocovíes

The Mocovíes (in Mocoví: Moqoit) are an indigenous people in Argentina detached from all the Guaicurú. Its language is part of the Mataco-Guaicurú linguistic family and endures in some of the areas that inhabit the provinces of Formosa, Santa Fe and del Chaco. Before the arrival of the Spanish colonizers, they lived primarily on hunting [...]

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Indigenous Argentine People

The indigenous people of Argentina, also called native people of Argentina, are the set of Amerindian individuals, communities and people that inhabited the current territory of Argentina at the time of the arrival of Europeans in the sixteenth century, as well as their current descendants and past -mixogenized or not with non-indigenous people- and those [...]

By |2019-11-15T11:54:07-03:00November 18th, 2019|Em Argentina, Meet Argentina|Comments Off on Indigenous Argentine People