Paillamachu (died 1604), was the

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toqui Toqui (or Toki) (Mapudungun for ''axe'' or ''axe-bearer'') is a title conferred by the Mapuche (an indigenous Chilean and Argentinian people) on those chosen as leaders during times of war. The toqui is chosen in an assembly or parliament ('' c ...

from 1592 to 1603 in what is now

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. Paillamachu replaced the slain

Paillaeco Paillaeco was elected Toqui in 1592 in place of Quintuguenu after Quintuguenu's defeat and death. Paillaeco did not think his forces were now sufficient to oppose the Spanish in the open field and decided to draw them into an ambush. The Spanish ...

, then organized and carried out the great revolt of 1598 that expelled the

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from Araucanía south of the Bío Bío River. He was succeeded upon his death by Huenecura in 1604.

Sources

The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili By Don Juan Ignatius Molina, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row, London, 1809

José Ignacio Víctor Eyzaguirre, Historia eclesiastica: Politica y literaria de Chile, IMPRENTA DEL COMERCIO, VALPARAISO, June 1830
List of Toquis, pg. 162-163, 498-500. 16th-century Mapuche people 17th-century Mapuche people 1603 deaths Captaincy General of Chile People of the Arauco War Indigenous leaders of the Americas Toquis Year of birth unknown {{SouthAm-ethno-group-stub