Quilacahuín was a

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, that is a confederation of familial clans, of the '' Chawra kawin'' Butalmapu located south of the

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, between the Rahue River and the sea, in southern

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Sources

Juan Ignatius Molina, The Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, London, 1809
* Ricardo E. Latcham
''La organización social y las creencias religiosas de los antiguos araucanos'', Santiago de Chile, Impr. Cervantes, 1924.
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