The Elqui River starts in the west Andes and flows into the Pacific Ocean near the Chilean city of La Serena . It is a wine and pisco producing area. Vicuña , the main town of the middle valley, was the home of Nobel Laureate poet Gabriela Mistral .
4-419: Elqui Valley may refer to: Elqui River , a river in northern Chile Elqui Valley (wine region) , a wine region centered on Elqui River Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Elqui Valley . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
8-797: The all placenames in Elqui Valley. It is generally accepted that incorporation of north-central Chile to the Inca Empire was through warfare which caused a severe depopulation in the Transverse Valleys of Norte Chico , the wider Diaguita homeland. Chilean toponymy in Tarija , Bolivia, including "Erqui" along with other evidence have been interpreted to suggest that Incas deported defeated tribes from Elqui Valley to southern Bolivia. After or during conquest Incas would have settled foreign tribes in Elqui Valley, and ended up imposing Quechua placenames on
12-400: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Elqui_Valley&oldid=932812791 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Elqui River The invasive plant species Limnobium laevigatum is present in
16-714: The river which is its northernmost locale in Chile. About a quarter of the toponymy in Elqui Valley is of indigenous origin, overwhelmingly Quechua and Mapuche . There is scant Diaguita (Kakan) toponyy known in the area despite it being considered a homeland of that people by various authors. Quechua toponymy is related to valleys incorporation to the Inca Empire in the late 15th and early 16th-century. Some Mapuche toponymy posdates Inca rule, but other may be coeval or even precede it. Toponyms recognised as Nahua , Kunza , Diaguita , Aymara and Taino make together up less than 10% of
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