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The Huarpes or Warpes are an indigenous people of Argentina, living in the Cuyo region. Some scholars assume that in the Huarpe language, this word means "sandy ground," [2] but according to Arte y Vocabulario de la lengua general del Reino de Chile, written by Andrés Febrés in Lima in 1765, the word Cuyo comes from Araucanian cuyum puulli, meaning "sandy land" or "desert country".
Allentiac (Alyentiyak), also known as Huarpe (Warpe), was one of two known Warpean languages. [1] It was native to Cuyo in Argentina, but was displaced to Chile in the late 16th century. Luis de Valdivia, a Jesuit missionary, wrote a grammar, vocabulary and religious texts. [2] The people became mestizo and lost their language soon after.
huar1251. Huarpe (Warpe) was a small language family of central Argentina (historic Cuyo Province) that consisted of two closely related languages. They are traditionally considered dialects, and include Allentiac (Alyentiyak, Huarpe) and Millcayac (Milykayak). A third, Puntano of San Luis, was not documented before the languages became extinct.
As of the 2022 census [INDEC], some 1,306,730 Argentines (2.83% of the country's population) self-identify as indigenous or first-generation descendants of indigenous peoples. [ 3 ] The most populous indigenous groups were the Aonikenk, Kolla, Qom, Wichí, Diaguita, Mocoví, Huarpe peoples, Mapuche and Guarani. [ 2 ]
San Juan National Historic Site (Spanish: Sitio Histórico Nacional de San Juan) in the Old San Juan section of San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a National Park Service-managed historic site which preserves and interprets the Spanish colonial-era fortification system of the city of San Juan, and features structures such as the San Felipe del Morro and San Cristóbal fortresses. [3]
t. e. The 5 July 1852 cover page of "El Eco del Comercio", a newspaper published in Ponce between 1857 and 1867. The 8 October 1884 issue of El Avisador Ponceño. This is a list of newspapers in Puerto Rico. Unless otherwise indicated, all papers are published in the Spanish language.
During the Battle of San Juan (17 April – 2 May 1797), the town of Miramar was the site of the British ill-fated British assault on the Spanish colonial port city of San Juan de Puerto Rico during the 1796–1808 Anglo-Spanish War. In the 17th century a wide public street, the Central Highway, (today Ponce de León Avenue) was built that ran ...
The municipality of San Juan is divided into 18 barrios, 16 of which fall within the former (until 1951) municipality of Río Piedras. Eight of the barrios are further divided into subbarrios, [ 1 ] and they include the two barrios that originally composed the municipality of San Juan (namely, San Juan Antiguo and Santurce): [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ]