The largest Amazonian people of Peru, riverine 'kinfolk' of the Tambo, Ene and Perené who venerate the salt mountain Cerro de la Sal at the heart of their world.
Rose under Juan Santos in 1742 to keep the Spanish out for a century; in the 1980s–90s Sendero Luminoso killed some 6,000 and displaced 10,000, but their self-armed rondas broke the guerrillas and the nation endures.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Asháninka —
the shape you scrub through changes in 1595 · 1742.
Moments from the Chronicle
1742Juan Santos Atahualpa's rebellion Claiming to be the reborn Inca, the messianic leader rallies Asháninka, Ashéninka and Yanesha in the Gran Pajonal, expelling Franciscan missionaries and sealing the central Peruvian montaña against colonization for over a hundred years.
1990Sendero Luminoso seizes the Asháninka rivers Shining Path guerrillas control the Ene and upper Tambo with thousands of Asháninka held captive; over the war some 6,000 are killed and 10,000 displaced before self-armed Asháninka rondas help break the insurgency.
Santos-Granero on the Arawakan world of the central-Peruvian montaña around the Cerro de la Sal, the Asháninka's sacred salt mountain (broad regional context).