The 1726 Parliament of Negrete was a diplomatic meeting between

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 s ...

s and

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authorities held in Negrete (a town in present-day

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). During the parliament a

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was signed, bringing an end to a period of warfare that begun in with the Mapuche uprising of 1723.

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