| Chilihueque | |
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| Chilihueque depicted in a 1646 book about the Dutch expedition to Valdivia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Camelidae |
| Genus: | Lama |
| Species: | †L. araucana
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| Binomial name | |
| †Lama araucana | |
| Synonyms | |
The chilihueque/chiliweke or hueque/weke (Lama araucana) is an extinct hypothetical species of South American camelid. It lived in central and southern Chile until the colonial period.
- ^ Molina, J.I. (1782). Saggio sulla storia naturale del Chili. Bologna, IT: Stamperia di S. Tommaso d' Aquino. pp. 316-317.
- ^ Fischer, J.B. (1829). Synopsis mammalium. Stuttgart, DE: J.G. Cotta. p. 438.
- ^ Boitard, P. (1841). Le Jardin des plantes description et moeurs des mammifères de la Ménagerie et du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle. Paris, FR: J.-J. Dubochet. p. 427. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.16910.