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Huaca de Chena, the Glossary

Huaca de Chena, also known as the Chena Pukara, is an Inca site on Chena Mountain, in the basin of San Bernardo, at the edge of the Calera de Tango and Maipo Province communes in Chile.^[1]

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Archaeological sites in Chile
Buildings and structures in Santiago Metropolitan Region
Indigenous peoples in Chile
Pre-Columbian architecture in Chile

Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Aymara people

The Aymara or Aimara (aymara), people are an indigenous people in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America. Huaca de Chena and Aymara people are indigenous peoples in Chile.

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Calendar

A calendar is a system of organizing days.

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Calera de Tango

Calera de Tango is a Chilean commune in the Maipo Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.

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Coricancha, Curicancha, Koricancha, Qoricancha or Qorikancha ("The Golden Temple," from Quechua quri gold; kancha enclosure) was the most important temple in the Inca Empire, and was described by early Spanish colonialists.

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Cougar

The cougar (Puma concolor) (KOO-gər), also known as the panther, mountain lion, catamount and puma, is a large cat native to the Americas.

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Cusco

Cusco or Cuzco (Qusqu or Qosqo) is a city in southeastern Peru near the Sacred Valley of the Andes mountain range and the Huatanay river.

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Diaguita

The Diaguita people are a group of South American indigenous people native to the Chilean Norte Chico and the Argentine Northwest. Huaca de Chena and Diaguita are indigenous peoples in Chile.

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El Mercurio

(known online as El Mercurio On-Line, EMOL) is a Chilean newspaper with editions in Valparaíso and Santiago.

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Equinox

A solar equinox is a moment in time when the Sun crosses the Earth's equator, which is to say, appears directly above the equator, rather than north or south of the equator.

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Estrous cycle

The estrous cycle (originally) is a set of recurring physiological changes induced by reproductive hormones in females of mammalian subclass Theria.

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Felidae

Felidae is the family of mammals in the order Carnivora colloquially referred to as cats.

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Fortification

A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime.

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Huaca

In the Quechuan languages of South America, a huaca or wak'a is an object that represents something revered, typically a monument of some kind.

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Huánuco Pampa

Huánuco Pampa, Huánuco Marka (also spelled Huánuco Marca) or Huánuco Viejo, Wanako Pampa, Wanuku Pampa or simply Huánuco is a large archaeological site in Peru in the Huánuco Region, Dos de Mayo Province, La Unión District.

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Inca Empire

The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (Tawantinsuyu, "four parts together"), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.

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Inti Raymi

The Inti Raymi (Quechua for "Inti festival") is a traditional religious ceremony of the Inca Empire in honor of the god Inti (Quechua for "sun"), the most venerated deity in Inca religion.

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Maipo Province

Maipo Province (Provincia de Maipo) is one of six provinces in the Santiago Metropolitan Region of central Chile.

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Nadir

The nadir is the direction pointing directly below a particular location; that is, it is one of two vertical directions at a specified location, orthogonal to a horizontal flat surface.

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Observatory

An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial, marine, or celestial events.

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Pukara

Pukara (Aymara and Quechuan "fortress", Hispanicized spellings pucara, pucará) is a defensive hilltop site or fortification built by the prehispanic and historic inhabitants of the central Andean area (from Ecuador to central Chile and northwestern Argentina). In some cases, these sites acted as temporary fortified refuges during periods of increased conflict, while other sites show evidence for permanent occupation.

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Quechuan languages

Quechua, also called Runasimi ('people's language') in Southern Quechua, is an indigenous language family that originated in central Peru and thereafter spread to other countries of the Andes.

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Qullasuyu

Qullasuyu (Quechua and Aymara spelling,; Collasuyu, Kholla Suyu; Collasuyo) was the southeastern provincial region of the Inca Empire.

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Religion in the Inca Empire

The Inca religion was a group of beliefs and rites that were related to a mythological system evolving from pre-Inca times to Inca Empire.

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San Bernardo, Chile

San Bernardo is a city of Chile, part of the Greater Santiago conurbation.

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Shamanism

Shamanism or samanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman or saman) interacting with the spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance.

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Solstice

A solstice is the time when the Sun reaches its most northerly or southerly excursion relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere.

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Tala Canta Ilabe

Tala Canta Ilabe (in quechua: Tala Canta, or Sorcerer's Lasso; Tala: Lasso; Canta: Sorcerer) was an Inca governor for a zone in Collasuyo, corresponding to the ayllu where Talagante is currently located, near Santiago de Chile.

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The Chilean Inca Trail

The Chilean Inca trail (El Camino del Inca en Chile) is a local and popular term among local tourism initiatives and Chilean anthropologists and archaeologists for the various branches of the Qhapak Ñan (the Inca road system) in Chile and its associated Inca archaeological sites.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huaca_de_Chena

Also known as Chena's huaca, Pucará de Chena.

Huaca de Chena, the Glossary

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See also

Archaeological sites in Chile

Buildings and structures in Santiago Metropolitan Region

Indigenous peoples in Chile

Pre-Columbian architecture in Chile

References