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Asháninka

1595 – present
Native nationSouth America

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.

Borders in 2026 · drawn from 2 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 2 border frames for Asháninka — the shape you scrub through changes in 1595 · 1742.

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