Qulla

Qulla
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Total population
120,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
 Argentina 65,066 (2010)
 Bolivia 51,736 (2011)
 Chile 20,744[2] (2017)
Languages
Northwest Jujuy Quechua, a dialect of Southern Quechua, a Quechua language[3]
Religion
Animism, Christianity (Roman Catholic Church)[4]
PeopleQulla
LanguageQichwa
CountryQullaw

The Qulla (Quechuan for south,[5] Hispanicized and mixed spellings: Colla, Kolla) are an Indigenous people of western Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina living in west of Jujuy, and west of Salta Province. The 2004 Complementary Indigenous Survey reported 53,019 Qulla households living in Argentina.[4] They moved freely between the borders of Argentina and Bolivia.[6] Their lands are part of the yungas or high altitude forests at the edge of the Amazon rainforest.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Argentina: the struggle of the Kolla people." Archived December 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine World Rainforest Movement. Bulletin No. 5. October 1997 (retrieved 29 April 2011)
  2. ^ Results of 2017 census censo2017.cl [dead link]
  3. ^ "Quechua, South Bolivian." Ethnologue. (retrieved 29 April 2011)
  4. ^ a b "Indigenous Peoples of Argentina." Archived April 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs. (retrieved 29 April 2011)
  5. ^ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary)
  6. ^ "Argentina: Current information on abuses committed against the Kolla." Archived October 18, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. 1 June 1993 (retrieved 29 April 2011)