CURUCANECAN, a tribe or small group of tribes of South American Indians, regarded on very insufficient evidence as consti tuting an independent linguistic stock. They have been extinct since the early part of the i9th century. The Curucanecas lived in the extreme north-east corner of the present province of Chiqui tos in eastern Bolivia, in about 16° S. lat. They appear to have been similar to and may have been linguistically related to the Corabecas (q.v.), Coravecas, Curuminacas arid other nomad hunting tribes of this region.
See A. D'Orbigny, L'Homme Americain (Paris, 1839).