Promaucaes, also spelled as Promaucas or Purumaucas (quechua purum awqa: wild people), are an indigenous pre-Columbian Mapuche tribal group that lives in the present territory of Chile, south of the Maipo River basin of Santiago, Chile and the Itata River.
Those to the north are called Quillotanes and Mapochoes by the Spanish colonists).
They speak Mapudungun, like the Moluche to the south, and are part of the Picunche tribe that live north of the Itata River.
