Renato Cárdenas Álvarez ( Calen,

Dalcahue Dalcahue is a port city and a commune in Chiloé Province, on Chiloé Island, Los Lagos Region, Chile. Demographics According to the 2002 census by the National Statistics Institute, the Dalcachue commune spans an area of and had 10,693 inhabit ...

, 2 August

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, 14 April 2022) was a Chilean historian, writer, poet and teacher. He has been part of the cultural movement Aumen, of which he was one of its founders together with

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in 1975. Cárdenas studied pedagogy in the

University of Chile The University of Chile ( es, Universidad de Chile) is a public research university in Santiago, Chile. It was founded on November 19, 1842, and inaugurated on September 17, 1843.

and the Escuela de Bellas Artes in

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. Later he obtained a scholarship to study communication in the

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. He was member of the

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and academic director of the Archivo Bibliográfico y Documental de Chiloé.

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