Boroa was a town in
Araucanía,
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...
on the shores of
Cautín River. The region near the town south of the Cautin River between the
Boroa and
Quepe Rivers was the
Moluche aillarehue
Aillarehue or Ayllarehue (from the Mapudungun: ayllarewe/ayjarewe: "nine rehues"); a confederation of rehues or family-based units (lof) that dominated a region or province. It was the old administrative and territorial division of the Mapuche, H ...
of Boroa. The site of the town was founded as a Spanish fort ''
San Ignacio de la Redención'' in 1606 by
maestre de campo Rodulfo Lisperger during the
Arauco War
The Arauco War was a long-running conflict between colonial Spaniards and the Mapuche people, mostly fought in the Araucanía region of Chile. The conflict began at first as a reaction to the Spanish conquerors attempting to establish cities a ...
but it did not remain long after he and his garrison were ambushed. Later in 1649 as a result of the
Parliament of Quillín (1647),
Martín de Mujica y Buitrón was able to reestablish the fort at Boroa but it was abandoned in 1656 after a long siege during the
Mapuche uprising of 1655. One could still find vestiges of the old Spanish fort near the mission at its location at the end of the 19th century.
[ Francisco Solano Asta Buruaga y Cienfuegosbr>Diccionario geográfico de la República de Chile, SEGUNDA EDICIÓN CORREGIDA Y AUMENTADA, NUEVA YORK, D. APPLETON Y COMPAÑÍA. 1899. Pg.889 Voroa]
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See also
* La Frontera
References
Sources
* Diego de Rosales, “Historia General del Reino de Chile”, Flandes Indiano, 3 tomos. Valparaíso 1877 - 1878.
* Francisco Solano Asta Buruaga y Cienfuegosbr>Diccionario geográfico de la República de Chile, SEGUNDA EDICIÓN CORREGIDA Y AUMENTADA, NUEVA YORK, D. APPLETON Y COMPAÑÍA. 1899. Pg.889 Voroa
Populated places established in 1606
San Ignacio de la Redencion
Populated places in Cautín Province
1606 establishments in the Spanish Empire
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