Puelche

The Puelche (Mapudungun: pwelche, "people of the east") were indigenous peoples living east of the Andes Mountains in Chile and Southwest Argentina in the 18th century. They spoke the Puelche language. The name "Puelche" was not native, but was given to them by the Mapuche. They were annihilated by plagues and epidemics in the late 18th century, with survivors merging into other groups such as the Mapuche, Het, and Tehuelche.

Flag of the Gününa künä, or Puelche people

The Puelche are commemorated in the scientific name of a species of lizard, Liolaemus puelche,[1] which is endemic to Mendoza Province, Argentina.[2]

Sources

Thomas Falkner, Description of Patagonia and the adjoining parts of South America, Pugh, Hereford, 1774.
Juan Ignatius Molina, The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, London, 1809
Bruce G. Trigger, Wilcomb E. Washburn, Richard E. W. Adams, The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Vol III South America Part 2. , Cambridge University Press, 2000.

References

Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Puelche", p. 212).
Species Liolaemus puelche at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.

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[1] Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-4214-0135-5. ("Puelche", p. 212).

[2] Species Liolaemus puelche at The Reptile Database . www.reptile-database.org.