Dutch Chilean are

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descent.

Background

In 1600, the Chilean city of

Valdivia Valdivia (; Mapuche: Ainil) is a city and commune in southern Chile, administered by the Municipality of Valdivia. The city is named after its founder Pedro de Valdivia and is located at the confluence of the Calle-Calle, Valdivia, and Cau-Cau R ...

was conquered by Dutch

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Sebastian de Cordes. He left the city after a few months. Four decades later, in 1642, the

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and the

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sent a fleet of ships to

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to take control of Valdivia and its Spanish gold mines. The expedition was conducted by

Hendrik Brouwer Hendrik Brouwer (; 1581 – 7 August 1643) was a Dutch explorer and governor of the Dutch East Indies. East Indies Brouwer is thought to first have sailed to the Dutch East Indies for the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in 1606. In 1610, ...

, a Dutch general. In 1643 Brouwer conquered the

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and Valdivia. After Brouwer died on 7 August 1643, vice-general Elias Herckmans took control. (The New Flanders Colony).

Dutch colonization in Chile

The second

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from the

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to Chile occurred in 1895. A dozen Dutch families settled in Chile between 1895 and 1897, particularly in Mechaico, Huillinco and Chacao. Egbert Hageman arrived in Chile with his family, on 14 April 1896, settling in Rio Gato, near Puerto Montt. The Wennekool family inaugurated the Dutch colonization of Villarrica. In the early twentieth century, a large group of Dutch people arrived in Chile from

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. These migrants, after a long stay in African camps, were presented with the opportunity to emigrate to Chile with the help of the Chilean government. On 4 May 1903, a group of over 200 Dutch sailed on the steamship "Oropesa" owned by the shipping company "Pacific Steam Navigation Company", from La Rochelle (La Pallice) in France. The majority had been born in the Netherlands (35% from North Holland and South Holland, 13% from

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, 9% from

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and an equal number of

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). Only a dozen children had been born in South Africa. On June 5, the arrived by train to the city of Pitrufquén. Another group of Dutchmen arrived shortly after to

Talcahuano Talcahuano () (From Mapudungun ''Tralkawenu'', "Thundering Sky") is a port city and commune in the Biobío Region of Chile. It is part of the Greater Concepción conurbation. Talcahuano is located in the south of the Central Zone of Chile. Geo ...

, in the "Oravi" and the "Orissa". The Netherlands colony in Donguil was christened "New Transvaal Colony". More than 500 Dutch families moved there. The last group of

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arrived between 7 February 1907 and February 18, 1909. Some 50,000 descendants remain, mostly located in Malleco,

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, Pitrufquén, Faja Maisan and around

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Notable Dutch Chileans

Jacqueline van Rysselberghe Jacqueline van Rysselberghe Herrera (born 3 February 1965) is a Chilean surgeon and politician. She is a member of the right-wing party Independent Democratic Union (UDI) was National Senator from 2014 to 2022. She was mayor of Concepción ...

, Chilean Politician *

Shmuel Szteinhendler Shmuel Szteinhendler, a rabbi in Santiago, Chile, is considered the current Chief Rabbi of Cuba and one of the most notable Rabbis in Latin America. Szteinhendler was born in Argentina and trained as a Conservative Judaism, Conservative rabbi in B ...

, rabbi (Regional Director of

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Latin America) * Peter Mociulski von Remenyk,

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musician *

Denisse van Lamoen Denisse Astrid van Lamoen (born 12 September 1979) is a Chilean archer. In 2000, she became the first Chilean archer to compete at the Summer Olympics, but after failing a drug test in 2002 she left archery to study law. She later returned to t ...

, a Chilean archer * Felipe van de Wyngard, Chilean triathlete *

Cristobal Tapia De Veer Juan Cristóbal Tapia de Veer is a Chilean-born Canadian film and television score composer, arranger, producer and multi-instrumentalist based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is best known for his score of the British TV series ''Utopia'', for ...

, film and television score composer

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Background

Dutch colonization in Chile

Notable Dutch Chileans

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