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    The Kawésqar, also known as the Kaweskar, Alacaluf, Alacalufe or Halakwulup, are an indigenous people who live in Chilean Patagonia, specifically in the...
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    Kawésqar (Qawasqar), also known as Alacaluf, is a critically endangered Alacalufan language spoken in southern Chile by the Kawésqar people. Originally...
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    Kawésqar National Park (Spanish: Parque nacional Kawésqar), formerly Alacalufes National Reserve, is the second largest national park in Chile and one...
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    mushrooms. The Yahgan share some similarities with the more northern Chono and Kawésqar (Alacaluf) tribes. These groups share behavioral traits; a traditional...
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    ethnic groups around the strait are the Kawésqar, the Tehuelche, the Selk'nam and Yaghan people. The Kawésqar lived on the western part of the strait's...
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     Argentina Province Tierra del Fuego Province Demographics Population >135,000 (2010) Ethnic groups Argentines, Chileans, Selk'nams, Kawésqar, Yaghans...
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    Manek'enk Yahgan, also known as Yagán, Yaghan, Yámana, Yamana, or Tequenica Kawésqar, also known as Alacalufe, Kaweskar, Alacaluf, or Halakwulup All of these...
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    Yokcushlu (category Kawésqar people)
    Yokcushlu (c. 1821 – c. 1883) was a Kawésqar woman from the western Tierra del Fuego. In 1830, at the age of nine, she was taken hostage by the crew of...
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    forms part of Bernardo O'Higgins National Park. It is home to the last Kawésqar people, living in the village of Puerto Edén, the only inhabited place...
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    inhabitants of the fjords and channels of Aysén Region are the Chono and Kawésqar. These two groups shared a life style as canoe-faring hunther-gatherers...
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