Mapuche
The Mapuche ( (Mapuche & Spanish: )) are a group of indigenous inhabitants of present-day south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of present-day Patagonia.
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Valdivia
City and commune in southern Chile, administered by the Municipality of Valdivia.
City and commune in southern Chile, administered by the Municipality of Valdivia.
The Huilliche and Mapuche were both referred to by the Spaniards as Araucanos.
Araucaria araucana
Evergreen tree growing to 1–1.5 m (3–5 ft) in diameter and 30–40 m (100–130 ft) in height.
Evergreen tree growing to 1–1.5 m (3–5 ft) in diameter and 30–40 m (100–130 ft) in height.
Once valued because of its long, straight trunk, its current rarity and vulnerable status mean its wood is now rarely used; it is also sacred to some members of the Mapuche Native American tribe.
Alonso de Ercilla
Spanish nobleman, soldier and epic poet, born in Madrid.
Spanish nobleman, soldier and epic poet, born in Madrid.
While in Chile (1556–63) he fought against the Araucanians (Mapuche), and there he began the epic poem La Araucana, considered one of the greatest Spanish historical poems.
Arauco, Chile
City and commune in Chile, located in Arauco Province in the Bío Bío Region.
City and commune in Chile, located in Arauco Province in the Bío Bío Region.
The Spanish settlements founded here during the Conquest of Chile were destroyed on numerous occasions by the Mapuche during the Arauco War.
Inca Empire
The largest empire in pre-Columbian America.
The largest empire in pre-Columbian America.
Traditional historiography claims the advance south halted after the Battle of the Maule where they met determined resistance from the Mapuche.
Mestizo
Term used both for racial classification used to refer to a person of a combined European and Indigenous American ancestry, and in certain countries in Latin America may also refers to people who are culturally European regardless of ancestry (see below).
Term used both for racial classification used to refer to a person of a combined European and Indigenous American ancestry, and in certain countries in Latin America may also refers to people who are culturally European regardless of ancestry (see below).
![Mulatto and Mestiza, produce Mulatto, he is Torna Atrás [throwback]" by Juan Rodríguez Juárez](https://hyperleap.com/images/dde4ac74a12a12ef9896060ff0f14051/200-6c069621173840097f849a38ac87a131.jpg)
In Chile, from the time the Spanish soldiers with Pedro de Valdivia entered northern Chile, a process of 'mestizaje' began where Spaniards began to intermarry and reproduce with the local bellicose Mapuche population of Indigenous Chileans to produce an overwhelmingly Mestizo population during the first generation in all of the cities they founded.
Picunche
The Picunche (a Mapudungun word meaning "North People"), also referred to as picones by the Spanish, were a Mapudungun-speaking people living to the north of the Mapuches or Araucanians (a name given to those Mapuche living between the Itata and Toltén rivers) and south of the Choapa River and the Diaguitas.
Temuco
City and commune, capital of the Cautín Province and of the Araucanía Region in southern Chile.
City and commune, capital of the Cautín Province and of the Araucanía Region in southern Chile.
Temuco lies in the middle of the historic Araucanía, a traditional land of the indigenous Mapuche.
Osorno, Chile
City and commune in southern Chile and capital of Osorno Province in the Los Lagos Region.
City and commune in southern Chile and capital of Osorno Province in the Los Lagos Region.
Osorno owes its legacy to fairly recent Chilean settlement, when the government subdued the region's indigenous Mapuche peoples in the mid-19th century and opened the land to Chilean and European immigration soon to follow.
