Likan Antai people

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The Likan Antai people, also known as the Atacameños, are an Indigenous group of the Atacama Desert region in northern Chile with a long-standing tradition of oasis agriculture, caravan trade, and rich pre-Columbian cultural heritage.

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Label Occurrences
Likan Antai people canonical 6

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Indigenous people ⓘ
adaptation use of oases for agriculture ⓘ
water management in desert environment ⓘ
alternativeName Atacama people ⓘ
linked to: Atacameño people

Atacameños ⓘ
linked to: Atacameño
archaeologicalCulture San Pedro de Atacama culture ⓘ
artAndCraft ceramics ⓘ
metalwork ⓘ
stone carvings ⓘ
textiles ⓘ
colonialReligion Roman Catholicism ⓘ
country Chile ⓘ
culturalHeritage Andean religious practices ⓘ
pre-Columbian cultural traditions ⓘ
rituals linked to mountains and water ⓘ
currentLanguageUse Spanish ⓘ
environment hyper-arid desert ⓘ
historicalCenter Peine ⓘ
San Pedro de Atacama ⓘ
Socaire ⓘ
Toconao ⓘ
historicalPeriod Inca period ⓘ
linked to: Andean Late Horizon

Spanish colonial period ⓘ
pre-Inca period ⓘ
language Kunza ⓘ
languageStatus Kunza is considered extinct as a native language ⓘ
linked to: Kunza language
nativeName Likan Antai ⓘ
primaryRegion Atacama Desert ⓘ
northern Chile ⓘ
recognizedAs Indigenous people of Chile ⓘ
recognizedBy Chilean state ⓘ
tradedGoods agricultural products ⓘ
metals ⓘ
salt ⓘ
textiles ⓘ
tradeRoutes Andean caravan routes ⓘ
traditionalCrop beans ⓘ
maize ⓘ
potatoes ⓘ
quinoa ⓘ
traditionalEconomy camelid herding ⓘ
caravan trade ⓘ
mining and metallurgy ⓘ
oasis agriculture ⓘ
traditionalIrrigation canal systems ⓘ
terraces ⓘ
traditionalReligion Andean cosmology ⓘ
veneration of mountain deities ⓘ
veneration of water sources ⓘ
traditionalSettlementType oasis villages ⓘ
pucarás (fortified settlements) ⓘ
traditionalTransport llama caravans ⓘ

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Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kunza → spokenBy → Likan Antai people ⓘ
Kunza → associatedEthnicity → Likan Antai people ⓘ
Kunza language → associatedEthnicity → Likan Antai people ⓘ
San Pedro River valley → hasCulturalGroup → Likan Antai people ⓘ
Likan Antai language → spokenBy → Likan Antai people ⓘ
Atacama oases → inhabitedBy → Likan Antai people ⓘ