Elqui River
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The Elqui River starts in the west Andes and flows into the Pacific Ocean near the Chilean city of La Serena. It flows through a wine and pisco producing area.[1] Vicuña, the main town of the middle valley, was the home of Nobel Laureate poet Gabriela Mistral.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
The invasive plant species Limnobium laevigatum is present in the river which is its northernmost locale in Chile.[2]
Indigenous cultures of the Elqui Valley
Script error: No such module "Labelled list hatnote". About a quarter of the toponymy in Elqui Valley is of indigenous origin, overwhelmingly Quechua and Mapuche.[3] There is scant Diaguita (Kakan) toponymy known in the area despite it being considered a homeland of that people by various authors.[3] Quechua toponymy is related to valleys incorporation to the Inca Empire in the late 15th and early 16th-century. Some Mapuche toponymy postdates Inca rule, but other may be coeval or even precede it.[3] Toponyms recognised as Nahua, Kunza, Diaguita, Aymara and Taino make together up less than 10% of the all placenames in Elqui Valley.[3]
It is generally accepted that incorporation of north-central Chile to the Inca Empire was through warfare which caused a severe depopulation in the Transverse Valleys of Norte Chico, the wider Diaguita homeland.[4] Chilean toponymy in Tarija, Bolivia, including "Erqui" along with other evidence have been interpreted to suggest that Incas deported defeated tribes from Elqui Valley to southern Bolivia.[5][6] After or during conquest Incas would have settled foreign tribes in Elqui Valley,[6] and ended up imposing Quechua placenames on the local geography.[3] There is uncertainty about the date of these transfers.[3][6] Chronicler Diego de Rosales tells of an anti-Inca rebellion in the Diaguita lands of Coquimbo and Copiapó concurrent with the Inca Civil War.[7] This rebellion would have been brutally repressed by the Incas who gave rebels "great chastise".[7]
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