Arauco, Chile
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Arauco is a city and commune in Chile, located in Arauco Province in the Bío Bío Region. The region was a Moluche aillarehue. The Spanish settlements founded here during the Conquest of Chile were des
Location of the Arauco commune in Bío Bío Region
Vista primer mirador hacia el centro de la ciudad de Arauco
Mapuche
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The Mapuche, also known as Araucanians, are a group of Indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of Patagonia. The collective term refers to a wide-rang
Arauco, Chile
…The region was a Moluche aillarehue. The Spanish settlements founded here during the Conquest of Chile were destroyed on numerous occasions by the Mapuche during the Arauco War. The name of the commune comes from the word ragko, which in Mapudungun means clayey water. This word was adopted by the Spanish…
Mapuche women from Tirúa in 2015
Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's picture of the confrontation between the Mapuches (left) and the Incas (right)
Caupolican by Nicanor Plaza
Cornelio Saavedra Rodríguez in meeting with the main lonkos of Araucania in 1869