The Rele River is a river in the commune of
Santa Juana. It has its origin to the south southeast of Santa Juana, from where it runs to the northeast from among the slopes of the heights of the
Nahuelbuta Range and runs to the east to the
Bio Bio River
Bio or BIO may refer to:
Computing
* bio(4), a pseudo-device driver in RAID controller management interface in OpenBSD and NetBSD
* Block I/O, a concept in computer data storage
Politics
* Julius Maada Bio (born 1964), Sierra Leonean politician ...
in which it empties a little above the confluence with the
Laja River. It a river with a small volume and its course is 20 kilometers long. It has a tributary that joins it from the south, the
Riachuelo Millapoa or ''de las Minas'' from the gold mines that in the sixteenth century were worked on its banks. Immediately on the north bank of the Rele River from the Millapoa was the location of the old city of
Santa Cruz de Coya. At the mouth of the river was the old fort and town of
Monterrey de la Frontera. A small town of Monterey now exists nearby. The
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 ...
name comes from the verb ', “to face up”.
Sources
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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. pg.649 Rele.—Riachuelo
Rivers of Chile
Rivers of Biobío Region
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