Tomás Guevara Silva (1865–1935) was a Chilean historian, teacher,

War of the Pacific The War of the Pacific (), also known by War of the Pacific#Etymology, multiple other names, was a war between Chile and a Treaty of Defensive Alliance (Bolivia–Peru), Bolivian–Peruvian alliance from 1879 to 1884. Fought over Atacama Desert ...

veteran and a prominent scholar of the

Mapuche people The Mapuche ( , ) also known as Araucanians 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 ...

. He was born in

Curicó Curicó () is a city located in Chile's central valley and serves as the capital of the Curicó Province, which is part of the Maule Region. Positioned between the provinces of Colchagua and Talca, the region stretches from the Pacific Ocean ...

Bibliography

*''Historia de Curicó'' (1890) *''La etnolojía araucana en el poema de Ercilla''

References

19th-century Chilean historians 20th-century Chilean historians 20th-century Chilean male writers Chilean schoolteachers Chilean military personnel of the War of the Pacific 1865 births 1935 deaths 20th-century Chilean educators Historians of the Mapuche world {{Chile-writer-stub