Comechingón

Comechingón (plural Comechingones) is the common name for a group of people indigenous to the Argentine provinces of Córdoba and San Luis.

The two main Comechingón groups called themselves Henia (in the north) and Kamiare (in the south), each subdivided into a dozen or so tribes.

They were sedentary, practiced agriculture yet gathered wild fruits, and raised animals for wool, meat and eggs.

Another distinctive aspect was their communal stone houses, half buried in the ground to endure the cold, wind and snow of the winter.

A cultural contribution is the vowel extension in the Spanish of the present inhabitants of Córdoba, but also not uncommon in San Luis and other neighbouring provinces.

View of the Comechingones Mountains.