Chincha(city)
Chincha ( Quechua ''chincha, chinchay'' north, northern, ocelot) may refer to: Locations * Chincha Alta, a city in Peru * Chincha Islands, a group of islands off the coast of Peru * Chincha Province, one of five provinces of the Ica Region of Peru **Chincha Alta District, one of eleven districts of Chincha province **Chincha Baja District, one of eleven districts of Chincha province *Chinchay Suyu, a region of the Inca Empire * Chinchayqucha, a lake in central Peru Other * Chincha culture, a pre-Columbian ethnic group in Peru * Chincha Islands War, fought between Spain and Peru in 1864-1866 *Chinchilla Chinchillas are either of two species (''Chinchilla chinchilla'' and ''Chinchilla lanigera'') of crepuscular rodents of the parvorder Caviomorpha. They are slightly larger and more robust than ground squirrels, and are native to the Andes mount ...

Quechua Language
Quechua (, ; ), usually called ("people's language") in Quechuan languages, is an Indigenous languages of the Americas, indigenous language family spoken by the Quechua peoples, primarily living in the Peruvian Andes. Derived from a common ancestral language, it is the most widely spoken Pre-Columbian era, pre-Columbian language family of the Americas, with an estimated 8–10 million speakers as of 2004.Adelaar 2004, pp. 167–168, 255. Approximately 25% (7.7 million) of Peruvians speak a Quechuan language. It is perhaps most widely known for being the main language family of the Inca Empire. The Spanish encouraged its use until the Peruvian War of Independence, Peruvian struggle for independence of the 1780s. As a result, Quechua variants are still widely spoken today, being the co-official language of many regions and the second most spoken language family in Peru. History Quechua had already expanded across wide ranges of the central Andes long before the expansion of the ...
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