Aymara people

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The Aymara people are an indigenous group of the Andes, primarily in Bolivia, Peru, and Chile, known for their rich pre-Columbian cultural traditions, Aymara language, and high-altitude agricultural practices.

All labels observed (5)

Label Occurrences
Aymara people canonical 45
Aymara 10
Aymara culture 6

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (53)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ethnic group
indigenous people
colonialHistory Spanish Empire
continent South America
country Bolivia
Chile
Peru
culturalPractice communal labor (ayni)
ritual offerings to Pachamama
seasonal agricultural festivals
domesticatedAnimal alpaca
llama
vicuna
ethnicity Aymara
historicalAssociation Tiwanaku culture
surface form: Tiwanaku civilization
historicalPeriod pre-Columbian era
language Aymara
surface form: Aymara language
languageFamily Aymaran languages
majorityReligion syncretic Catholicism
neighboringEthnicGroup Quechua people
notableIndividual Evo Morales
officialLanguageIn Bolivia
Peru
politicalInfluence Bolivian social movements
populationEstimate over 2 million
primaryLocation Andes
recognizedMinorityIn Bolivia
Chile
Peru
region Altiplano plateau
surface form: Altiplano

Lake Titicaca region
religion Roman Catholicism
indigenous Andean religion
traditionalClothing bowler hat
chullo
pollera skirt
poncho
traditionalCrop cañihua
oca
potato
quinoa
traditionalDeity Inti
Pachamama
traditionalMusic charango
drums
panpipes
traditionalOccupation high-altitude agriculture
pastoralism
traditionalReligion Andean mythology
surface form: Andean cosmology
traditionalTechnology raised field agriculture
terrace farming
waru waru
writingSystem Latin alphabet

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Referenced by (66)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Colla people ethnicGroupOf Aymara people
Manco Kapac Province hasEthnicGroup Aymara people
Cha’lla ethnicGroup Aymara people
Island of the Sun inhabitedBy Aymara people
Chucuito Province ethnicGroup Aymara people
Huancané Province ethnicGroup Aymara people
Los Andes Province hasEthnicGroup Aymara people
Murillo Province containsEthnicGroup Aymara people
History of Chile hasPreColumbianCulture Aymara people
this entity surface form: Aymara
Desaguadero ethnicGroupPresence Aymara people