Aymara people

Aymara

Aymara people in Jujuy Province, c. 1870.
Total population
2,324,675[1][2][3][4]
Regions with significant populations
Bolivia	1,598,807[1]
Peru	548,292[2]
Chile	156,754[3]
Argentina	20,822[4]
Languages
Aymara • Spanish
Religion
Majority: Catholicism Minority: Evangelicalism Traditional
Related ethnic groups
Quechuas, Urus

The Aymara or Aimara (Aymara: aymara, listen^ⓘ), people are an indigenous people in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America. Approximately 2.3 million Aymara live in northwest Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. The ancestors of the Aymara lived in the region for many centuries before becoming a subject people of the Inca Empire in the late 15th or early 16th century, and later of the Spanish in the 16th century. With the Spanish American wars of independence (1810–1825), the Aymaras became subjects of the new nations of Bolivia and Peru. After the War of the Pacific (1879–1883), Chile annexed territory with the Aymara population.^[5]