- Quiapo, Chile
Quiapo is a place in
Arauco Province ofChile that is 25 kilometers to the Southwest of Arauco and about 25 kilometers to the north and east of the port of Lebu to the east of theBahia del Carnero and 6.4 kilometers west of the small town of Villa Alegre. It was a low mountainous and thickly wooded area, that contained amoung its contours arable lands that had the same name. It is also the location where two streams come together to form the headwaters of theQuiapo River .In the
Arauco War , the hills at the confluence of the two streams was the location of the fortress built by theMapuche Toqui Caupolicán the younger , to block the northward advance ofGarcía Hurtado de Mendoza, Marquis of Cañete into the Arauco area and site of the1558 Battle of Quiapo .In
1566 the governorRodrigo de Quiroga built a small fort on this site that was destroyed by the Mapuche several times and abandoned some years later. The name, altered to Quiapo and Quipco by the Spanish, was originally theMapudungun Cuyapu or Cuyamapu, meaning "cuya", weasel and "mapu" land.Sources
* [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=CYYCAAAAYAAJ&dq=+%22Diccionario+geogr%C3%A1fico+de+la+Rep%C3%BAblica+de+Chile%22&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=at2xk7fMpa&sig=iQdGHwos7_hF3dM34ORZdeNS8Bo Francisco Solano Asta-Buruaga y Cienfuegos, Diccionario geográfico de la República de Chile, SEGUNDA EDICIÓN CORREGIDA Y AUMENTADA, NUEVA YORK, D. APPLETON Y COMPAÑÍA. 1899.] p. 613-14
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