Ckunsa

Kunza was the language of the Atacama people around the Salar de Atacama in northern Chile, an isolate with no proven relatives. The Atacama herded llamas, farmed terraces and kept stone forts such as Quitor. Their neighbors in the group are the Chichas of southern Bolivia and the Omaguaca of the Quebrada de Humahuaca.

The Inca took the region in the fifteenth century and moved Chichas as settlers to the Loa valley. Diego de Almagro's expedition entered in 1536, and Spain annexed the Atacama in 1557.