Kalfucura

Kalfucura is associated with a Mapuche community in the Barda Negra country south of Zapala, on the eastern side of the Andes. The wider region formed part of a world of mountain passes and plains inhabited by Pehuenche and other Indigenous peoples. Pehuenche communities took their name from the pehuén, or monkey puzzle tree, whose nutritious seeds were an important food. Routes across the cordillera connected the lands on either side of the mountains.