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CALCHAQUI

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 969 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CALCHAQUI , a tribe of See also:

South See also:

AMERICAN

American See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians, now See also:

EXTINCT

extinct, who formerly occupied See also:

NORTHERN

northern See also:

ARGENTINA

Argentina . See also:

Stone and other remains prove them to have reached a high degree of See also:

CIVILIZATION

civilization . They offered a vigorous resistance to the first See also:

SPANISH

Spanish colonists coming from See also:

CHILE, or CHILI (derived, it is said, from the Quichua chin , cold, or tchili, snow)

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