Aymara

Also known as Aimara, Aymaras

indigenous people in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America

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Aymara are indigenous people who have lived in the Andes mountains and high plateau regions of South America for centuries. Their culture, language, and traditions remain important to the identity and heritage of communities in that region today.

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Demonym: Aymaran
Image: Aimaras Pozo Almonte.jpg

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The Aymara or Aimara (Aymara: aymara, listen) people are an Indigenous people in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America. Approximately 2.3 million Aymara live in northwest Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.

The Aymara have lived in the region for over 7,250 years. In the late 15th century or early 16th century, Aymaras came under the rule of the Inca Empire and later of the Spanish Empire in the 16th century. Following the Spanish American wars of independence (1810–1825), the Aymara became subjects to the new nations of Bolivia and Peru. After the War of the Pacific (1879–1883), Chile annexed territory inhabited by the Aymara population.