The Picunche, also referred to as picones by the Spanish, were a Mapudungun-speaking people living to the north of the Mapuches or Araucanians and south of the Choapa River and the Diaguitas. Until th
Illustration of a Picunche couple in Durch Süd-Amerika (1894) by Theodor Ohlsen
Mapuche religion is the traditional Native American religion of the Mapuche people. It is practiced primarily in south-central Chile and southwest Argentina. The tradition has no formal leadership or
A machi standing on their rewe, the timber structure they climb onto while in a trance-state