Alpaca is a Spanish word formation is called the Aymara Alpuca or Quechue name pacos or pacochas. The Aymara and Queche people are the traditional owners of Alpacas.

The camel family is divided into 6 species.
1. Guanaco Lama guanicoe
2. Lama glama Lama
3. vicugna Vicuña
4. Vicugna pacos
5. Darius Dromedary Camel Camelus Drome
6. Bactrian camel Camelus Bactriahus


The ancestors of modern camels family resides in North America between 11 and 9 million years ago. The story of the camels started in South America three million years ago when a wild type was detected in the Hemiauuchenia and palaeo lama who appeared in a guanaco with a much too long neck. The ancestors of today's Alpacas are the llama and Vicugna.
The parents in America are extinct about 11,000 years ago.
Ultimately, the lama (The wild guanaco) and Vicugna (Wilde vicugna) on.
These two species are the only survivors of the wild form in America.
We know now 100% sure that the wild form of the vicugna Alpacas and Alpaca name
vicugna is not any longer pacos Lama pacos.
The Incas the shepherds and their animals were days and traded their goods for food. This way of life was brutally disrupted when the Inca Empire in 1438-1532 was conquered by the Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro with 200 men, he put an end to the Inca empire
After the Spanish conquest, the soldiers all the Indian clothes and sold them for very low prices. All Alpacas and Lamas were murdered.
From the Alpaca and llama population was much else.
200 years after the Spanish conquest, the Alpaca again introduced in Europe.
In 1983, for the first time a group of Alpacas exported.
The animals were from Chile, Bolivia and Peru were exported and sold to countries like the United States, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Poland, Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, Iserael and South Africa.