Ranquel

The Ranquels are an ethnos group aboriginal which belonged to the Mapuches, although their ascent was mainly origin het and Tehuelche of the septentrional group of the Günün-a-küna or Genakenk s.

Between 1775 and 1790 a group of Pehuenche S advanced since the Andean slopes to the territory which was called Mamül Mapu ( mamül : rough-hew, scrap-metal; mapu : ground, territory) because it was covered with wood of Caldén, of wild caroubier and Chañar.

Thus, they were established between the Río Cuarto or Chocancharava and the Río Colorado, since the south of the current territories of San Luis, and Córdoba, until the south of the province of the Pampa.

Their name of Ranquel is the result of Europeanization to Spanish of their own autodenomination in Mapudungun of Rankülche where rankül wants to say canes or reed , and che means man, i.e. " people of the canes or the roseaux".

They were hunters and generally nomads. During a good part of the XIXe century, they had an alliance with the tribes Tehuelche S. Ensemble, they made incursions into the west of the province of Buenos Aires and the south of that of Córdoba, like in those of Mendoza, San Luis and Santa Fe.

Their large last " Lonco " - (i.e. chief) - was Pincén, which was off-set in the island Martín García in 1880. After the capture of this last, Ranquels were crushed at the time of the Conquête of the Desert, and their grounds were usurped.

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