Cañari

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Country.native_name: Kañari
Country.conventional_long_name: Cañari
Country.common_name: Cañaris
Country.era: Integration
Country.status: Civilization
Country.government_type: Diarchy
Country.p1: Tuncahuán
Country.s1: Inca Empire
Country.image_map: Canar_in_Ecuador_(+Galapagos).svg
Country.image_map_caption: Location of Cañar in Ecuador
Country.image_map2: Panorámica Pumapungo.png
Country.image_map2_caption: Panoramic view of part of the ruins of Pumapungo in Cuenca, Ecuador.
Country.capital: Tumebamba
Country.common_languages: Originally Cañari (now extinct), Kichwa, Spanish
Country.religion: Polytheist

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Commons category: Cañari
dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1533-01-01

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Origins
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History
Inca Conquest
Inca Civil War
Spanish conquest
Territory
Culture
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The Cañari (in Kichwa: Kañari) are an indigenous ethnic group traditionally inhabiting the territory of the modern provinces of Azuay and Cañar in Ecuador. They are descended from the independent pre-Columbian tribal confederation of the same name. The historic people are particularly noted for their resistance against the Inca Empire. Eventually conquered by the Inca in the early 16th century shortly before the arrival of the Spanish, the Cañari later allied with the Spanish against the Inca. Today, the population of the Cañari, who include many mestizos, numbers in the thousands.