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The Araucanía region is the heartland of the indigenous Mapuche people, who resisted both Incan and Spanish attempts at conquest. After sending many forces against the Mapuche, the Spanish would cut their losses, establishing the southern border of their colony at the northern banks of the Biobío River.
Map showing the "old" and the "new" frontiers of Mapuche Araucanía established by 1870 through the occupation of the Araucanía. Araucanía or Araucana [ 1 ] was the Spanish name given to the region of Chile inhabited by the Mapuche peoples known as the Moluche (also known as Araucanos by the Spanish) in the 18th century.
Map showing an interpretation of the historical presence of Mapuches between the 16th and 21st centuries based on data from Melin et al. (2015). Wallmapu is the word in the Mapuche language to say "Universe" [ 1 ] or "set of surrounding lands", currently used by some historians to describe the historical territory inhabited by the Mapuche ...
Cornelio Saavedra Rodríguez in meeting with the main lonkos of Araucania in 1869. In the nineteenth century, Argentina and Chile experienced a fast territorial expansion. Argentina established a colony at the Falkland Islands in 1820, settled Chubut with Welsh immigrants in 1865 and conquered Formosa, Misiones and Chaco from Paraguay in 1870.
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Temuco (Spanish pronunciation:) is a city and commune, capital of the Cautín Province and of the Araucanía Region in southern Chile.The city is located 670 kilometres (416 miles) south of Santiago.
This list contains: Name of the stream, in Spanish Language; Coordinates are latitude and longitude of the feature in ± decimal degrees, at the mouth of the stream; Link to a map including the Geonameid (a number which uniquely identifies a Geoname feature)
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