Paillamachu (died 1604), was the
Mapuche
The Mapuche ( (Mapuche & Spanish: )) are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of Patagonia. The collective term refers to a wide-ranging ethnicity composed of various groups who sha ...
toqui
Toqui (or Toki) ( Mapudungun for ''axe'' or ''axe-bearer'') is a title conferred by the Mapuche (an indigenous Chilean and Argentinian people) on those chosen as leaders during times of war. The toqui is chosen in an assembly or parliament ('' ...
from 1592 to 1603 in what is now
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
.
Paillamachu replaced the slain
Paillaeco
Paillaeco was elected Toqui in 1592 in place of Quintuguenu after Quintuguenu's defeat and death. Paillaeco did not think his forces were now sufficient to oppose the Spanish in the open field and decided to draw them into an ambush. The Spanish ...
, then organized and carried out the great revolt of 1598 that expelled the
Spanish
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from
Araucanía south of the
Bío Bío River. He was succeeded upon his death by
Huenecura
Huenecura or HuenencuraClaudio Gay, "Historia fisica y politica de Chile", Tomo II, Cap. XXXII. was the Mapuche Toqui from 1604 to 1610. He replaced Paillamachu
Paillamachu (died 1604), was the Mapuche toqui from 1592 to 1603 in what is now Chil ...
in 1604.
Sources
The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili By Don Juan Ignatius Molina, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row, London, 1809 José Ignacio Víctor Eyzaguirre, Historia eclesiastica: Politica y literaria de Chile, IMPRENTA DEL COMERCIO, VALPARAISO, June 1830List of Toquis, pg. 162-163, 498-500.
16th-century Mapuche people
17th-century Mapuche people
1603 deaths
Captaincy General of Chile
People of the Arauco War
Indigenous leaders of the Americas
Toquis
Year of birth unknown
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