Topic summary
Promaucaes
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Promaucae.
Description
The Inca referred to all the peoples who were not under their empire as purum awqa. Because these Picunche tribes were successful in defending their territory against the Inca Empire in the Battle of the Maule, they were given this distinctive name. In an effort to transliterate the word into Spanish phonetics, the Spanish referred to them as the Purumaucas or Promaucaes. The early Spanish in the area knew their region as the province of Promaucae and its inhabitants were called Promaucaes.