Crossword-Solution: ICHU 4 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The word is from Ichu, grass.] 9 (return) [ The Peruvians personified a mountain as two spirits, good and evil.

Moreover, the high ridges of the Andes supported a species of grass called _ichu_, growing up to the snowline from the equator to the southern extremity of Patagonia.

Here and elsewhere the animal raised varies widely-the llama and vicuna in Peru, which thrive best at 10,000 to 13,000 feet elevation, and multiply rapidly on the _ichu_ or coarse grass which clothes the slopes of the higher Andes up to snow line; sheep, goats, yaks and herds of dzo, a useful hybrid between yak and cow, in the highland districts of Sze Chuan.

Setting out from Andahuaylas they marched on the way to Cuzco until they reached a place called Ichu-pampa, five leagues west of that city, where they halted for some days, terrifying the neighbourhood and preparing for an advance.

The Chancas returned to Ichu-pampa, and the _orejones_ to Cuzco, having won a great victory and taken a vast amount of plunder which remained in their hands.