La Dehesa is a suburban neighborhood in Lo Barnechea Commune of

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile, is the capital and largest city of Chile as well as one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is the center of Chile's most densely populated region, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, whos ...

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. It borders Las Condes to the south and

Vitacura Vitacura is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. It is one of the most expensive and fashionable areas of Santiago. Inhabitants are primarily high income families. It belongs to the Northeastern zone o ...

to the west. It is located in a valley near the

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, in the northeast of the city, north of the

Mapocho River The River Mapocho ( es, Río Mapocho) ( Mapudungun: ''Mapu chuco'', "water that penetrates the land") is a river in Chile. It flows from its source in the Andes mountains onto the west and divides Chile's capital Santiago in two. Course The Mapo ...

. La Dehesa is known as one of Chile's most affluent neighborhoods.

History

It is believed that the first human group to be discovered here were mainly hunter–gatherer

nomad A nomad is a member of a community without fixed habitation who regularly moves to and from the same areas. Such groups include hunter-gatherers, pastoral nomads (owning livestock), tinkers and trader nomads. In the twentieth century, the po ...

s. They came in search of

guanaco The guanaco (; ''Lama guanicoe'') is a camelid native to South America, closely related to the llama. Guanacos are one of two wild South American camelids, the other being the vicuña, which lives at higher elevations. Etymology The guanaco ...

s; they arrived in

in approximately 10,000 BC. Around the year 800 BC, the area became inhabited along the shores of the

, representing the first

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population, which resulted from the establishment of

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communities and the

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's domestication. The area was controlled by the

Inca The Inca Empire (also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire), called ''Tawantinsuyu'' by its subjects, (Quechua for the "Realm of the Four Parts", "four parts together" ) was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The admin ...

and by the

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during the seventeenth century. The Spanish were still in control of the area in the early 1800s when

Bernardo O'Higgins Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme (; August 20, 1778 – October 24, 1842) was a Chilean independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. He was a wealthy landowner of Basque-Spanish and Irish ancestry. Alth ...

helped to win its independence from that empire in 1810. In 1964 there was discovery of important archeological materials in La Dehesa,Superficial Recolection's word of La Dehesa de Lo Barnechea. Proceedings of the III International congress of

an archeology pp:183-185. Viña del Mar some of the most important of which were five

tembetá A tembetá ( Guaraní language: ''tembé'': lip, ''Ita'': stone.) or barbote (Argentina) is a metal or stone rod placed in lower lip piercings by members of some indigenous peoples in South America. It has been used since the Neolithic period b ...

s, Aconcagua salmón and a fragmented pipe of

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 ...

origin. During construction several archaeological deposits were detected with finds linked to the Bato Tradition, evidence that aboriginals previously inhabited the location. The harshest disaster that occurred in the area was in 1982, when coastal towns were inundated. The area was previously called Huayco, an

word that meant: "Place of serious inundations".

Notable people

* Mario Kreutzberger *

Rafael Araneda Rafael Luis Araneda Maturana (born September 18, 1969, in Santiago) is a popular Chilean TV presenter, best known for his participation in the show Rojo Fama Contrafama as the host. Also he was the host of '' Estrellas en el Hielo'', ''Sin Pre ...

* Raquel Argandoña *

Karen Doggenweiler Karen Sylvia Doggenweiler Puente (born August 27, 1969 in Puelche) is a popular Chilean journalist and TV presenter. Doggenweiler is the daughter of Félix Doggenweiler Heim, of Swiss-German descent and Silvia Lapuente, of Spanish- Aragoneseh ...

Marco Enríquez-Ominami Marco Antonio Enríquez-Ominami Gumucio (born 12 June 1973) is a Chilean-French, filmmaker, politician, and perennial candidate. From 2006 to 2010 he was a Socialist Party deputy in Chile's lower chamber. In 2009 he quit the party and ran for P ...

* Paulina Nin de Cardona *

Augusto Pinochet Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (, , , ; 25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean general who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, first as the leader of the Military Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1981, being declared President of ...

Marcela Vacarezza Marcela Paz Vacarezza Etcheverry (born 8 May 1970 in Antofagasta) is a Chilean television presenter and psychologist. She is married to the TV presenter Rafael Araneda with whom she has three children, Martina, Florencia and Vicente. Marcela is ...

* Jorge Valdivia

References

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History

Notable people

See also

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