contemporary nickname of "Vampires of the Andes". The economy of the Uran Chancas was based primarily on agricultural crops and animals. They grew various...

medicine, chanca piedra is used to treat gallstones.1 It appears to work on gallstones, much in the same way it helps break up kidney stones. Chanca piedra...

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...

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...

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...

conquered the Chancas c. 1380 Yáhuar Huácac, the seventh Sapa Inca of the Kingdom of Cuzco, abandoned the capital in an attack by the Chancas c. 1410 — c...

"Nymphargus chancas". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2022: e.T54953A89198212. Retrieved 23 December 2022. Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Nymphargus chancas (Duellman...

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...

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...

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...

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...

stonemasons, metalworkers, and farmers. Among the expedition members were Alvarez Chanca, a physician who wrote a detailed account of the second voyage; Juan Ponce...

the hurin section of Cuzco. In legend, he is said to have conquered the Chancas (among other peoples), as well as established the yachaywasi, schools for...

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...

The name of Pachacuti was given to him after he conquered the Tribe of Chancas during the Inca-Chanka war (modern Apurímac). During his reign, he and...

department of Apurímac. Founded in 1989, it owes its name to the ancient Chanca ethnic group. It participated in the Peru Cup until 2015, when it reached...

their representation as miniature figurines most commonly referred to as chancas or conopas. Conopa were often natural or carved stone objects that resembled...

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...

Pocras were inseparable allies of the Hanan Chancas ethnic group. Data on the origin of the Hanan Chancas, or Kingdom of Parkos, shows the entire ethnic...

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...

tribes of several regions originating among the Quechua and Aymaras. The Chancas, originally from Choclococha and Huancavelica, settled in the region of...

Inca administrative center, established after the Incas conquered the Chancas and the Pocras. According to the Chronicler Pedro Cieza de León, Vilcashuamán...

(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...

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...

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...

firsthand account of cannibal customs in the Caribbean comes from Diego Álvarez Chanca, who accompanied Christopher Columbus on his second voyage. His description...

powerful Chancas were greater threats and the Inca army had to confront them on a number of occasions. This period started with the defeat of the Chancas, with...

58% 85 UD 77 Taxonera 1 26 3 1 22 34 125 -91 7 13.46% 86 AD Virgen de la Chanca 1 20 0 4 16 17 93 -76 4 10% 87 UE Deltebre 1 26 1 2 23 29 164 -135 4 7.69%...

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...

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...