• Chanca or Chanka may refer to: Chanca people, an ethnic group of Peru Chanca Quechua, a language of Peru Chhanka, a mountain in Peru Cerro Chanka, a lava...
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    Chanca piedra Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Clade: Tracheophytes Clade: Angiosperms Clade: Eudicots Clade: Rosids Order: Malpighiales Family:...
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  • department of Apurímac. Founded in 1989, it owes its name to the ancient Chanca ethnic group. It participated in the Copa Perú until 2015, when it reached...
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    Diego Álvarez Chanca (c. 1463 – c. 1515) was a Spanish physician who accompanied Christopher Columbus on his second voyage. Chanca was a physician-in-ordinary...
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  • Nymphargus chancas (common name: Peru Cochran frog) is a species of frog in the family Centrolenidae. Until recently it was only known from its type locality...
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  • Ayacucho (also called Chanca or Chanka after the local Chanka ethnicity that dominated the area before the Inca conquest) is a variety of Southern Quechua...
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  • Chanka (redirect from Chancas)
    The Chanka people (or Chanca) are a Quechua people ethnic group living in the regions of Apurímac, Ayacucho and Lamas of Peru. They were enemies of the...
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    The Inca-Chanka war was a military conflict fought between Cusco and the Chanka chiefdom around 1438. It is the final conflict between these two people...
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    in popularity in England around the 1780s as an appetizer. Diego Álvarez Chanca brought back chili peppers from the Americas to Spain in 1493. He had sailed...
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  • The Los Chancas mine is a large copper mine located in the Apurímac Region of southern Peru. Los Chancas represents one of the largest copper reserves...
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