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Tehuelche (Aónikenk)

1520 – present
Native nationSouth America

Tall guanaco-hunters of the open Patagonian plains, the 'Patagones' whose footprints gave the land its name, ranging from the Río Negro to the Strait of Magellan.

Decimated and dispossessed by Argentina's 1878-1885 Conquest of the Desert; survivors absorbed into Mapuche communities, a few hundred descendants and the language nearly gone by 2026.

Borders in 2026 · drawn from 4 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 4 border frames for Tehuelche (Aónikenk) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1520 · 1820 · 1878 · 1886.

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