Appendix:English terms of Native South American origin/Place names, personal names and tribe names

An offshoot of Appendix:English terms of Native American origin, this list includes place names, personal names and tribe names which originated from Native American language families spoken to the south of the Panama Canal. Terms from language families spoken on both sides of the Canal, or in the Caribbean, are listed separately. See Appendix:English terms of Native South American origin for a list of common nouns derived from these languages.

from Quechuan (languages)

• Quechua — "member of any of several South American ethnic groups that inhabit Peru, Bolivia, northwestern Argentina, northern Chile, Ecuador and southern Colombia", "any of several languages spoken by these people" — from Quechua qichwa (“temperate valley”)