Cara culture
Cara Caranquis Kara | |||||||||
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| c. 1000–c. 1470 | |||||||||
Pichincha province in Ecuador, where the Cara culture was based | |||||||||
| Capital | Inca-Caranqui | ||||||||
| Common languages | Caranqui language | ||||||||
| Historical era | Integration | ||||||||
• Established | c. 1000 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | c. 1470 | ||||||||
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The Cara or Caranqui culture was an archaeological culture which flourished in coastal Ecuador, in what is now Manabí Province, in the first millennium CE.