Araucanía or Araucana
[ Gomez de Vidaurre]
''Historia Geografica, Natural y Civil Del Reino de Chile, Tomo II''; ''Coleccion de historiadores de Chile'', Tomo XV, Imprenta Ercilla, Santiago, 1889
Original from the University of Michigan, Digitized Aug 4, 2005 (History of Chile 1535–1764) was the
Spanish name given to the region of
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...
inhabited by the
Mapuche
The Mapuche ( , ) also known as Araucanians are a group of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of Patagonia. The collective term refers to a wide-ranging e ...
peoples known as the
Moluche (also known as Araucanos by the Spanish) in the 18th century. Prior to the Spanish
conquest of Chile, the lands of the Moluche lay between the
Itata River and
Toltén River.
History
Following the great rising of the Moluche and
Huilliche after the
Battle of Curalaba in 1598 during the
Arauco War, they expelled the Spanish from south of the
Bío-Bío River. After many decades of further warfare, the bounds of Araucania were recognized by the Spanish as being between the Bío-Bío and Toltén rivers. This old region of Araucanía now is divided between the southern part of the
Bío-Bío Region and the
Araucanía Region in
southern Chile.
See also
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La Araucana
*
Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia
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Futahuillimapu
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La Frontera region of Chile
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Wallmapu
References
Inline citations
General references
Juan Ignatius Molina, The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili, Vol II., Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, London, 1809
Historical regions
Geography of Chile
Mapuche history
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