'''Caucahue''' is an ethnonym used by the Chono, the Huilliche and Spanish of Chiloé for a group of canoe-faring people that inhabited the archipelagoes south of the Gulf of Penas. The term is one of the various ethnonyms recorded by the Spanish in the 18th century in the fjords and channels of Patagonia.<ref name=Alv02>{{Cite journal |title=Reflexiones en torno a las identidades de las poblaciones canoeras, situadas entre los 44º y 48º de latitud sur, denominadas "chonos". |journal=Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia, serie Ciencias Humanas |last=Alvarez Abel |first=Ricardo |volume=30 |pages=79–86 |year=2002 |language=Spanish}}</ref> The Caucahue spoke a different language from the Chono.<ref name=Coastal20/> Archaeologist Ricardo Alvarez posits that the Caucahue and other groups appeared relatively late in colonial records because this was the time when contact became more common.<ref name=Alv02/> Alvarez also posits the Caucahue disappeared from the historical record by merging into the Kawésqar to the south and the people of Chiloé to the north.<ref name=Alv02/> According to historian Ximena Urbina and co-workers the Caucahue are essentially ancient Kawésqar.<ref name=Coastal20>{{Cite journal |title=Canoeros en Chiloé: de facilitadores de las navegaciones españolas en los archipiélagos los Chonos y de Guayaneco, a productores y comerciantes, 1567-1792 |journal=Chungara |url=https://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-73562020000200335 |last1=Urbina |first1=Ximena |issue=2 |volume=52 |last2=Reyes |first2=Omar |doi=10.4067/S0717-73562020005000702 |year=2020 |trans-title=Coastal hunter gatherers in Chiloé: From facilitators of the navigation of Spaniards in the Chonos and Guayaneco archipelagoes to producers and traders, 1567-1792 |last3=Belmar |first3=Carolina A.|language=Spanish|doi-access=free }}</ref> "Caucahues" described in sources as "gigantic" may have been Tehuelches.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Handbook of South American Indians |last=Cooper |first=John M. |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |year=1946 |location=Washington, United States |pages=50 |work=Bureau of American Ethnology |editor-last=Steward |editor-first=Julian H. |chapter=The Marginal tribes}}</ref>
==See also== *Antonio de Vea expedition *Caucahue Island *Indigenous peoples in Chile
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Category:Ethnonyms Category:History of Aysén Region Category:History of Magallanes Region Category:Kawésqar Category:Indigenous peoples of the Southern Cone Category:Indigenous peoples in Chile Category:Hunter-gatherers of South America Category:Nomadic groups in the Americas Category:Sea nomads