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Carangas (Qaranqa)

Aymara herders of the windswept Lauca plateau west of Lake Poopó, masters of vast llama and alpaca flocks and chullpa tomb-towers.

Folded into Cusco's Qullasuyu, then reorganised by Toledo's reducciones into clustered parishes; survived as the Aymara communities of western Oruro, several keeping their pre-Hispanic ayllu names.

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Borders over time

The atlas holds 2 border frames for Carangas (Qaranqa) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1100 · 1574.

Further reading

• The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas Frank Salomon · 1996

  The South America volumes survey the Aymara lake kingdoms including the Carangas of the Lauca plateau (broad regional context).

• The Incas Terence N D'Altroy · 1971

  D'Altroy's authoritative survey covers the Aymara and other Andean peoples of highland Bolivia among whom the Carangas, Killaka and Uru live.

Sources

• Aymara lordships — Wikipedia