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Also known as Elias, Tehuelches

indigenous people from Patagonia

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The approximate distribution of languages in the southernmost regions of South America during the years of the Spanish conquest Tehuelche chiefs, located in Santa Cruz Province in the south of Argentina

The Tehuelche people, also called the Aónikenk, are an Indigenous people from eastern Patagonia in South America. In the 18th and 19th centuries the Tehuelche were influenced by the Mapuche people, and many adopted domestic use of horses.

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