What does "puka" means in Quechua ?

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and is Quechua language mostly are spoken in Peru ?

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What does "puka" means in Quechua ?

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Puka Llacta is the name of a Peruvian Maoist political group that its origins in the 1970s. Puka Llacta is a Quechua name that means "Patria Roja" in Spanish and "Red Country" or "Red Motherland" in English.


Quechua (Runa Simi; Kichwa in Ecuador) is a Native American language of South America. It was the language of the Inca Empire, and is today spoken in various dialects by some 10 million people throughout South America, including Peru and Bolivia, southern Colombia and Ecuador, north-western Argentina and northern Chile. It is the most widely spoken of all American Indian languages.

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