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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 .
Chile has attempted to develop hydropower projects in indigenous territory where the rivers that the energy companies hope to use are sacred to the Mapuche people. One area impacted by hydropower development is the Puelwillimapu Territory, whose interconnected waterways are referred to as the watershed of Wenuleufu or the ‘River Above ...
Attracting millions of people, and simulcast live on radio, television and on the Internet, the parade, led by the Chilean Armed Forces (Chilean Army, Chilean Navy and Chilean Air Force) and the Carabineros de Chile, plus since 2019 the Investigations Police of Chile, takes place in the afternoon, and (when 19 September is a Sunday, Monday ...
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 ]
An autosomal DNA study from 2014 found Chile to possess a genepool averaging 51.85% (± 5.44%) European, 44.34% (± 3.9%) Indigenous, and 3.81% (± 0.45%) African DNA. [23] The genetic study was conducted across all regions of Chile, and while it “ratified the preponderance of mestizaje in Chile”, [ 24 ] it also found “the indigenous ...
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 origin of the Diaguita culture is traced back to an archaeological culture known as El Molle complex which existed from 300 to 700 CE. [3] 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.
The 2015 Illapel earthquake occurred 46 km (29 mi) offshore from Illapel (Coquimbo region, Chile) on September 16 at 19:54:32 Chile Standard Time (22:54:32 UTC), with a moment magnitude of 8.3–8.4. [ 6 ] [ 1 ] [ 7 ] The initial quake lasted between three and five minutes; [ 8 ] it was followed by several aftershocks greater than magnitude six ...