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The Het were the people of the northern Patagonian pampas west of the Paraná River: The Chechehet, the Diuihet or Didiuhet, and the Taluhet. The easternmost Didiuhet, near modern Buenos Aires and influenced by the Guarani, were called the Querandí (see). It is not clear if these three peoples were related linguistically or only culturally.

The Het were neighbored on the north by the Chaná, on the northwest and west by the Mapuche, and on the south by the Puelche.

Peoples

The Het peoples are listed from north to south as follows.

• The Taluhet occupied the modern provinces of San Luis in the east, Córdoba, and Santa Fe in the west.
• The Diuihet (Divihet, Didiuhet, Diliuhet) inhabited the coastal region between the La Plata and Paraná rivers in Buenos Aires Province, southern Santa Fe, and inland through La Pampa and as far as Mendoza.
• The Chechehet lived as far south as the mouths of the Colorado and Río Negro rivers in southern Buenos Aires Province.

Language

References

1. Th. Falkner: A description of Patagonia and the adjoining parts of South America, 1774

• Languages of Argentina
• Chonan languages
• Indigenous peoples of the Southern Cone
• Indigenous peoples in Argentina
• Languages extinct in the 19th century
• Unclassified languages of South America