 Member of the Milkayak Huarpe ethnicity | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Argentina (Cuyo) | |
| Argentina | 34,279[1] |
| Languages | |
| Spanish; formerly Quechua and Huarpe | |
| Religion | |
| traditional tribal religion | |
The Huarpes or Warpes are an indigenous people of Argentina, living in the Cuyo region. Some scholars assume that in the Huarpe language, this word means "sandy ground,"[2] but according to Arte y Vocabulario de la lengua general del Reino de Chile, written by Andrés Febrés in Lima in 1765, the word Cuyo comes from Araucanian cuyum puulli, meaning "sandy land" or "desert country".[3]
- ^ "Censo Nacional de Población, Hogares y Viviendas 2010: Resultados definitivos: Serie B No 2: Tomo 1" (PDF) (in Spanish). INDEC. p. 281. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
- ^ Peoples of the Americas, Volume 1 By Patrick Gray. Marshall Cavendish, 1999. 1999. ISBN 9780761470519. Retrieved 8 October 2010.
- ^ Oms, Andrés Febrés (1765). Arte de la lengua general del reyno de Chile: con un dialogo chileno-hispano ... By Andrés Febrés Oms. Retrieved 8 October 2010.