Zúngaro, or better Zungaro, is the name of a genus of large fish in the family Pimelodidae. It is one of the common names of a freshwater fish from the catfish family. It is also known as manguruyú, jaú, catfish toad, yaú, tightr, robal, maiden, surubí. It is found in the basins of the great rivers of South America. They are basically piscivores, of sizes sometimes greater than 2 meters and there are 2 species. In Peru there is a town with that name near Huánuco. It is also the name of a Siberian ethnic group of Mongolian origin, which was part of the Oirate Peoples. It was also called dzúngaro,júngaro, choro u olot. They were nomads, Buddhists. Relative to or from Zungaria. It is the name of a central region of Asia, between Kazakhstan and China. It was also the name of a Kanato in that region.
ZUNGARO The zúngaros were Asia's last nomadic empire. They were a confederation of Tibetan Buddhite Mongols living in Zungaria since the 17th century It is estimated that the Qing dynasty, because they had rebelled, had them exterminated. Between 500 and 800 died. 000 people, almost the entire population Between 17551757 the Qing government relocated people of the han, hui, Uighurs, and Manchus ethnic groups of the Qing dynasty on state farms in Zungaria to repopulate the region.
