Warlike valley farmers of stone pukaras who fought the Spanish for over a century in the three Calchaquí Wars before mass deportation emptied their homeland.
Defeated 1665-1667 and deported en masse — the Quilmes marched to Buenos Aires — depopulating the Calchaquí valleys; descendants today reclaim Diaguita identity in Catamarca, Salta, Tucumán and Chile.
The atlas holds 3 border frames for Diaguita (Calchaquí Confederation) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1000 · 1560 · 1665.
Covers the Calchaquí valleys and the long Spanish wars and deportations that emptied the Diaguita homeland (broad national context).
Survey reference treating the Diaguita and Calchaquí peoples of the southern Andes (broad reference).