Yunca

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Yunca \Yun"ca\ (y[=oo][ng]"k[.a]), n.
     An Indian of a linguistic stock of tribes of the Peruvian
     coast who had a developed agricultural civilization at the
     advent of the Spaniards, before which they had been conquered
     by the Incas. They constructed irrigation canals which are
     still in use, adorned their buildings with bas-reliefs and


     frescoes, and were skilled goldsmiths and silversmiths. --
     {Yun"can}, a.