• 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    stonemasons, metalworkers, and farmers. Among the expedition members were Alvarez Chanca, a physician who wrote a detailed account of the second voyage; Juan Ponce...
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    Chanza River (redirect from Chança River)
    The Chanza River (Chança in Portuguese) is a river on the Iberian Peninsula. The river arises in the Aracena Mountains in Spain and later forms part of...
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    Wila Ch'ankha (redirect from Wila Chanca)
    (Aymara wila red, ch'ankha wool cord, "red cord", Hispanicized spelling Wila Chanca) is a 4,701-metre-high (15,423 ft) mountain located in the Andes in Bolivia...
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  • Sakari Momoi 5 February 1903 5 July 2015 112 years, 150 days Japan 47 Victor Chanca Santos 14 June 1910 9 November 2022 112 years, 148 days Peru 48 Gisaburō...
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    expand, referred in the Spanish accounts as the "Chanca confederacy", an alliance formed by the Chanca, Parinacocha, Vilca, Sora, and Rucana (Lucana) cultures...
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    Pachacuti was given to him after he conquered the tribe of the Chancas during the Inca-Chanca war (in modern day Apurímac). During his reign, he and his son...
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  • Chhanka (redirect from Cerro Chanca)
    Chhanka (Quechua for cliff, hispanicized spelling Chanca) is a mountain in the Andes of Peru, about 5,050 m (16,570 ft) high. It is located in the Lima...
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    rugged mountainous region on the western end of the island. Diego Álvarez Chanca, a physician on Columbus's second voyage, also noted that “Ayiti” or Haïti...
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    Spanish. The town lies on a hill surrounded by the rivers Miño, Rato and Chanca. The difference in altitude between the city centre and the river banks...
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  • name in some 19th-century English sources for Gough Island Diego Álvarez Chanca (c. 1463–c. 1515), doctor who accompanied Christopher Columbus Diego Álvarez...
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    an account of Columbus's second voyage by his physician, Diego Álvarez Chanca, while in Guadeloupe. José R. Oliver writes that the Natives of Borinquén...
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  • http://rupestreweb.tripod.com/puntadeleste.html Alvarez Chanca, Diego. La Carta del Doctor Chanca, que escribió à la Ciudad de Sevilla. Collección de los...
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    there for two days, 20 and 21 November 1493. Fleet member Diego Álvarez Chanca recounts that as they sailed along the southern coast of Puerto Rico, a...
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    Quechua dialect spoken today in the Huancayo area) and the Chanka (the Chanca dialect of Ayacucho) of Peru, and the Kañari (Cañari) in Ecuador. Quechua...
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    Muell.Arg. Phyllanthus muellerianus (Kuntze) Exell Phyllanthus niruri L. – Chanca piedra (Also includes P. amarus and P. debilis) Phyllanthus nyale Petra...
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    Aymara Camaná, inhabited by the Maje people Caravelí Cavana or Qhawana Chanca or Chanka, also called Andahuayla or Andawaylla. Chilque, whose people were...
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    but not so large: but I think it was a species of laurel. — Diego Álvarez Chanca, January 1494 The white bark, the brilliant deep green foliage, and crimson...
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    between the River Caia and Ribeira de Cuncos, then later from the River Chança until its mouth. The river is not used to completely mark the boundary between...
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    2021, without clause]. Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 July 2019. Chanca, Marta (16 July 2020). "Raúl García, el segundo curioso caso de Benjamin...
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    the free encyclopedia Qayna Kunan Paqarin: Una introducción al quechua chanca. 2011 (Archive) Electronic book of the complete course of the grammar of...
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