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The indigenous Picunche disappeared by a process of mestizaje by gradually abandoning their villages (pueblo de indios) to settle in nearby Spanish haciendas. There Picunches mingled with disparate indigenous peoples brought in from Araucanía ( Mapuche ), Chiloé ( Huilliche , Cunco , Chono , Poyas [ 5 ] ) and Cuyo ( Huarpe [ 6 ] ). [ 7 ]
The Inca first expanded into Chile under Túpac Inca Yupanqui who ruled from 1471 to 1493. At its peak, the empire’s southern border was the Maule River in central Chile. Shortly thereafter, Spanish conquistadors led by Francisco Pizarro started to make contact with Inca in Peru in the 1530s. [4]
Later, this culture was replaced in Chile by the Las Ánimas complex that developed between 800 and 1000 CE. [3] It is from this last culture that the archaeological Diaguita culture emerged around 1000 CE. [3] [5] The classical Diaguita period was characterized by advanced irrigation systems and by pottery painted in black, white and red. [3]
CONADI is overseen by the Social Development Ministry or "es:Ministerio de Desarrollo Social de Chile". Its headquarters are located in the city of Temuco and it has two subdivisions: Temuco, covering the Bío Bío , Araucanía , Los Lagos and Los Ríos regions , and Iquique , covering the Tarapacá , Antofagasta and Arica y Parinacota regions .
The exact date of the conquest of Central Chile by the Inca Empire is not known. [4] A study of ceramics from 2014 suggest Inca influence in Central Chile begun as early as 1390. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Nevertheless, it is generally accepted that Central Chile was conquered during the reign of Topa Inca Yupanqui and most early Spanish chronicles point out ...
Los Restos Indígenas de Pichilemu (The Indigenous Remains of Pichilemu) was a 1908 book published by Chilean historian José Toribio Medina. Medina presents a report of his examination to indigenous rests found in a Pichilemu grotto (currently named Virgin's Grotto — Spanish : Gruta de la Virgen ) by Agustín Ross and Evaristo Merino in 1908.
The Changos, also known as Camanchacos or Camanchangos, [1] are an Indigenous people or group of peoples who inhabited a long stretch of the Pacific coast from southern Peru to north-central Chile, including the coast of the Atacama Desert. Although much of the customs and culture of the Chango people have disappeared and in many cases they ...
The Mapuche uprising of 1655 (Spanish: alzamiento mapuche de 1655 or levantamiento mapuche de 1655) was a series of coordinated Mapuche attacks against Spanish settlements and forts in colonial Chile. It was the worst military crisis in Chile in decades, and contemporaries even considered the possibility of a civil war among the Spanish. [1]