The Pikunche people lived in the Chilean Central area.
The Spanish chronicles provide abundant information about this people. They called them Pikunche. They spoke the Mapuche language, the same as Araucanians and Williches, but culturally they were more developed due to the acquisition of more evolved techniques due to their contact with peoples from the north.
They bury their dead under tumulus; they had carved stones that, with handles, could be used as agricultural tools; they carved holes in big stones known as piedras tacita that may have been used as mortars or for ceremonial offerings.
They created a ceramic decorated with trident shapes (trinaquio), distinctive from all pre Hispanic cultures in Chile.