Likan Antai people

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The Likan Antai people, also known as the Atacameños, are an Indigenous group of the Atacama Desert region in northern Chile with a long-standing tradition of oasis agriculture, caravan trade, and rich pre-Columbian cultural heritage.

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Likan Antai people canonical 6

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people
adaptation use of oases for agriculture
water management in desert environment
alternativeName Atacama people
linked to: Atacameño people

Atacameños
linked to: Atacameño
archaeologicalCulture San Pedro de Atacama culture
artAndCraft ceramics
metalwork
stone carvings
textiles
colonialReligion Roman Catholicism
country Chile
culturalHeritage Andean religious practices
pre-Columbian cultural traditions
rituals linked to mountains and water
currentLanguageUse Spanish
environment hyper-arid desert
historicalCenter Peine
San Pedro de Atacama
Socaire
Toconao
historicalPeriod Inca period
linked to: Andean Late Horizon

Spanish colonial period
pre-Inca period
language Kunza
languageStatus Kunza is considered extinct as a native language
linked to: Kunza language
nativeName Likan Antai
primaryRegion Atacama Desert
northern Chile
recognizedAs Indigenous people of Chile
recognizedBy Chilean state
tradedGoods agricultural products
metals
salt
textiles
tradeRoutes Andean caravan routes
traditionalCrop beans
maize
potatoes
quinoa
traditionalEconomy camelid herding
caravan trade
mining and metallurgy
oasis agriculture
traditionalIrrigation canal systems
terraces
traditionalReligion Andean cosmology
veneration of mountain deities
veneration of water sources
traditionalSettlementType oasis villages
pucarás (fortified settlements)
traditionalTransport llama caravans

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Kunza spokenBy Likan Antai people
Kunza associatedEthnicity Likan Antai people
Kunza language associatedEthnicity Likan Antai people
San Pedro River valley hasCulturalGroup Likan Antai people
Likan Antai language spokenBy Likan Antai people
Atacama oases inhabitedBy Likan Antai people