Arauco, originally from

Mapudungun Mapuche ( , ; from 'land' and 'people', meaning 'the people of the land') or Mapudungun (from 'land' and 'speak, speech', meaning 'the speech of the land'; also spelled Mapuzugun and Mapudungu) is either a language isolate or member of the s ...

''rag ko'' meaning “clayey water,” or Araucanía may refer to:

Places

Araucanía Region The Araucanía ( ), La Araucanía Region ( ) is one of Chile's 16 first-order administrative divisions, and comprises two provinces: Malleco in the north and Cautín in the south. Its capital and largest city is Temuco; other important cities ...

, an administrative region of Chile, the heartland of the historic region of Araucania *

Araucanía (historic region) 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, 1889Original from the University of Michigan, Digitized A ...

, a historical region of Central Chile also called Arauco *

Arauco, Chile Arauco is a city and commune () in Chile, located in Arauco Province in the Bío Bío Region. The meaning of Arauco means Chalky Water in Mapudungun. The region was a Moluche aillarehue. The Spanish settlements founded here during the Conq ...

, a city and municipality in Arauco Province, Chile *

Arauco Peninsula The Arauco Peninsula (Spanish: península de Arauco), is a peninsula in Southern Chile located in the homonymous Arauco Province. It projects northwest into the Pacific Ocean. The peninsula is located west of Cordillera de Nahuelbuta. Geological ...

Arauco Province Arauco Province () is one of three provinces of the Chilean region of Bío Bío. It spans a coastal area of just south of the mouth of the Biobío River, the traditional demarcation between the nation's major natural regions, Zona Central and ...

, a province in the Biobío Region of Chile * Arauco Department, Chile *

Arauco, La Rioja Arauco (La Rioja) is a municipality and village in La Rioja Province in northwestern Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of ...

, Argentina *

Arauco Department, La Rioja Arauco is a department of La Rioja Province, Argentina. Population It had 723 inhabitants at the 2001 census, an increase of 16% since the last census in 1991, when it had 623 inhabitants. Settlements * Aimogasta * Arauco * Bañado de los P ...

, an administrative entity in La Rioja Province, Argentina *

Gulf of Arauco A gulf is a large inlet from an ocean or their seas into a landmass, larger and typically (though not always) with a narrower opening than a bay. The term was used traditionally for large, highly indented navigable bodies of salt water that ar ...

, a body of water on the coast of Chile *

Araucanian Islands (disambiguation) Araucanian islands may refer to the following islands in Chile: *Mocha Island * Quiriquina Island *Santa María Island, Chile Santa María Island is a sparsely inhabited island located in the Bay of Arauco off the western coast of the Concepci� ...

Biology

* ''Arauco'' (moth) * ''

Araucania chilensis ''Araucania'' is a monotypic genus of wasps belonging to the family Sapygidae The Sapygidae are a family of solitary kleptoparasitic aculeate wasps. They are generally black wasps, similar in appearance to some Tiphiidae or Thynnidae, with wh ...

'' (a sapygid wasp) * ''Araucania'' (a

braconid The Braconidae are a family of parasitoid wasps. After the closely related Ichneumonidae, braconids make up the second-largest family in the order Hymenoptera, with about 17,000 recognized species and many thousands more undescribed. One analysis ...

wasp genus) * ''

Araucaria araucana ''Araucaria araucana'', commonly called the monkey puzzle tree, monkey tail tree, pewen, pehuen pine or piñonero, is an evergreen tree belonging to the family Araucariaceae and growing to a trunk diameter of and a height of . It is native to ...

'', the Arauco pine

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Celulosa Arauco y Constitución Celulosa Arauco y Constitución (also called CELCO or ARAUCO) is a Chilean wood pulp, engineered wood and forestry company controlled by Anacleto Angelini's economic group Empresas Copec. In 2006 CELCO/ARAUCO had five pulp mills in Chile and one ...

(CELCO), a wood pulp and forestry enterprise in Chile

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