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María Catrileo
María Catrileo Chiguailaf de Codo (born 1944, Nueva Imperial) is a native Mapuche linguist and professor of Spanish, English and Mapudungun language. Catrileo grew up in the Mapuche community of Rangintulewfü, Boroa, Nueva Imperial. Obtaining her basic education in the community, she finished school at the in La Serena. Afterward, she obtained her Master of Arts in Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin with a Fulbright grant. She married a Yoruba man from Nigeria, with whom she had Anail Rayén, and taught English and Mapudungun linguistics at the Austral University of Chile. In 1980, she began working on the ''Diccionario lingüístico-etnográfico de la lengua mapuche'', which was published in 1995. In the late 1990s, she was a volunteer host of '' Wixage anai!'', a Santiago-based Mapuche radio program that first aired on 26 June 1993. In 2009, Catrileo received the ''Provincial Prize for Conservation of National Monuments'' for her studies of the native Mapudun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nueva Imperial
Nueva Imperial (New Imperial, in English) a city and commune in the south of Chile. It is located in Cautín Province in the Araucanía Region. Nueva Imperial lies about to the west of Temuco, the regional capital. Geography Nueva Imperial is located in a region with abundant natural resources: volcanoes, mountains, rivers, hot springs, valleys, and native forests, which include stands of araucaria trees. The city is traversed by the Chol-Chol and Cautín Rivers, which together form the Imperial River. The Imperial River flows into the Pacific Ocean at the town of Puerto Saavedra. Both are navigable by boat and support fishing for trout and other species as well as canoeing and kayaking. History What is now the city of Nueva Imperial was founded in 1551 by Pedro de Valdivia, the Spanish conquistador, under the name La Imperial. He intended it to be one of the most important cities in colonial Chile, perhaps even the capital of the country. However, it was destroyed twice by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |