people known from colonial-era records either are ancient Kawésqar or came to merge with the Kawésqar. The English and other Europeans initially adopted the...

Kawésqar (Qawasqar), also known as Alacaluf, is a critically endangered Alacalufan language spoken in southern Chile by the Kawésqar people. Originally...

Kawésqar National Park (Spanish: Parque nacional Kawésqar), formerly Alacalufes National Reserve, is the second largest national park in Chile and one...

mushrooms. The Yahgan share some similarities with the more northern Chono and Kawésqar (Alacaluf) tribes. These groups share behavioral traits; a traditional...

Manek'enk Yahgan, also known as Yagán, Yaghan, Yámana, Yamana, or Tequenica Kawésqar, also known as Alacalufe, Kaweskar, Alacaluf, or Halakwulup All of these...

Yokcushlu (c. 1821 – c. 1883) was a Kawésqar woman from the western Tierra del Fuego. In 1830, at the age of nine, she was taken hostage by the crew of...

ethnic groups around the strait are the Kawésqar, the Tehuelche, the Selk'nam and Yaghan people. The Kawésqar lived on the western part of the strait's...

 Argentina Province Tierra del Fuego Province Demographics Population >135,000 (2010) Ethnic groups Argentines, Chileans, Selk'nams, Kawésqar, Yaghans...

inhabitants of the fjords and channels of Aysén Region are the Chono and Kawésqar. These two groups shared a life style as canoe-faring hunther-gatherers...

compared to canoe-farers further south. Alberto Achacaz Walakial, himself a Kawésqar born around 1929, said that the Chono people were taller and of darker...