A member of an indigenous Amazonian people of eastern Peru, or the language spoken by this group.
From the Quechua or indigenous Amazonian language source. 'Chuncho' refers to indigenous forest peoples of the Amazon region in South American colonial and ethnographic texts.
The word 'Chuncho' appears in historical Spanish colonial documents and later English anthropological texts, but the term itself is considered outdated by modern scholars who prefer using the actual indigenous group names—it's an example of how colonial labels can obscure rather than clarify identity.
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