American indigenous people from the Atacama desert and altiplano region
Atacama people
Kunzas Likanantaí
Regions with significant populations
Chile
30,369 (2017)[1]
Argentina
13,936 (2010)[2]
Languages
Spanish, formerly Kunza
Religion
Christian, Inca cult[citation needed]
The Atacama people, also called Atacameño, are an Indigenous people from the Atacama Desert and altiplano region in the north of Chile and Argentina and southern Bolivia, mainly the Antofagasta Region.
According to the Argentinean Census in 2010, 13,936 people identified as first-generation Atacameño in Argentina,[2] while Chile was home to 21,015 Atacameño people as of 2002.[3]
Other names include Kunza and Likanantaí.[a]
Indigenous peoples of Chile
^"Síntesis de Resultados Censo 2017" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas, Santiago de Chile. p. 16.
^ ab"Censo Nacional de Población, Hogares y Viviendas 2010: Resultados definitivos: Serie B No. 2: Tomo 1" (PDF). INDEC (in Spanish). p. 281. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 5 December 2015.
^2002 Chilean census Instituto nacional de estadisticas de Chile retrieved on May 17, 2015
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