Tomás Guevara Silva (1865–1935) was a Chilean historian, teacher,

War of the Pacific The War of the Pacific ( es, link=no, Guerra del Pacífico), also known as the Saltpeter War ( es, link=no, Guerra del salitre) and by multiple other names, was a war between Chile and a Bolivian–Peruvian alliance from 1879 to 1884. Fought ...

veteran and a prominent scholar of the

Mapuche people 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 ...

. He was born in

Curicó Curicó (), meaning "Black Waters" in Mapudungun (originally meaning "Land of Black Water"), is the capital city of the Curicó Province, part of the Maule Region in Chile's central valley. The province lies between the provinces of Colchagu ...

Bibliography

*''Historia de Curicó'' (1890) *''La etnolojía araucana en el poema de Ercilla''

References

19th-century Chilean historians 20th-century Chilean historians 20th-century Chilean male writers Chilean schoolteachers Chilean military personnel of the War of the Pacific 1865 births 1935 deaths 20th-century Chilean educators Historians of the Mapuche world {{Chile-writer-stub