The Mission of Río Bueno ( es, Misión de Río Bueno) was a

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mission in the

Huilliche The Huilliche , Huiliche or Huilliche-Mapuche are the southern partiality of the Mapuche macroethnic group of Chile. Located in the Zona Sur, they inhabit both Futahuillimapu ("great land of the south") and, as the Cunco subgroup, the north hal ...

lands in Río Bueno, next to

Bueno River Bueno River (Spanish: ''Río Bueno'') is a river in southern Chile. It originates in Ranco Lake and like most of Chile rivers it drains into the Pacific Ocean at the southern boundary of the Valdivian Coastal Reserve. Its lower flow forms the bo ...

, southern Chile. The establishment of the mission was by 1767 being planned by the Jesuit

Andrés Febrés Andrés Febrés was 18th-century Spanish Jesuit active in Colonial Chile. He is best known for his book In his writings he supported the incorporation of the lands of the independent Cunco and Huilliche, the Futahuillimapu, into the Spanish Emp ...

. As the Jesuit order was expelled from Spanish America in 1767 the project was continued by Franciscans who established the mission in 1777. In 1792 events related to the mission led to a Huilliche uprising that year. According to

Diego Barros Arana Diego Jacinto Agustín Barros Arana (; August 16, 1830 – November 4, 1907) was a Chilean professor, legislator, minister and diplomat. He is considered the most important Chilean historian of the 19th century. His main work ''General History of ...

"an Indian" called Felipe was said to have obtained a letter from the Governor of Valdivia to the head of the mission.Barros Arana 2000, p. 65. This letter would have revealed that the purpose of the mission was to "lull the Indians in the confidence of peace, to give death to their warriors and reduce more easily the peoples into slavery". Albeit these claims are deemed false by Barros Arana in 1792, they were enough to ignite an uprising. The uprising begun in September 1792, with a series of assaults against Spanish settlers in Río Bueno and Lago Ranco. Houses were torched and animals stolen. Ten Spanish settlers are reported to have been killed.

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Antonio Curcoa (or Cuzcoo) who ran the mission was "tied naked to the tail of a vigorous horse and dragged around in the countryside until he ceased to exist".Barros Arana 2000, p. 66.

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