Jatun Mayu (Chuquisaca)
Jatun Mayu ( Quechua ''hatun, jatun'' great, ''mayu'' river, "great river") is a Bolivian river in the Chuquisaca Department, Jaime Zudáñez Province Jaime Zudáñez is a province in the Bolivian department of Chuquisaca. It was named after Jaime de Zudáñez, emancipation leader born in Chuquisaca in 1772. Geography Some of the highest mountains of the province are listed below: Subdivi ..., Icla Municipality. It is a left affluent of the Icla River. It belongs to the watershed of the Pillku Mayu. References Rivers of Chuquisaca Department {{Bolivia-river-stub ...
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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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