Boroa, is a town in Araucanía,

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the eas ...

on the shores of Cautín River. The region near the town south of the Cautin River between the

Boroa Boroa, is a town in Araucanía Region, Araucanía, Chile on the shores of Cautín River. The region near the town south of the Cautin River between the Boroa River, Boroa and Quepe Rivers was the Moluche aillarehue of Boroa. The site of the town was ...

and Quepe Rivers was the

Moluche The Moluche ("people from where the sun sets" or "people from the west") or Nguluche are an indigenous people of Chile. Their language was a dialect of Mapudungun, a Mapuche language. At the beginning of the Conquest of Chile by the Spanish Empire ...

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, ...

of Boroa. The site of the town was founded as a Spanish fort ''

San Ignacio de la Redención San Ignacio de la Redención was a fort established in 1606 by Alonso García de Ramón, Royal Governor of Chile, in a plain, located in the region of Boroa on the north bank of the Cautín River. In forty days he constructed a large fort, surround ...

'' in 1606 by Maestro 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 (historic region), Araucanía. The conflict began at first as a reaction to the Spanish conquerors attempting to estab ...

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 The Mapuche uprising of 1655 ( es, alzamiento mapuche de 1655 or ) was a series of coordinated Mapuche attacks against Spanish settlements and forts in colonial Chile. It was the worst military crisis in Chile in decades, and contemporaries e ...

. 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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Diego de Rosales Diego de Rosales (Madrid, 1601 - Santiago, 1677) was a Spanish chronicler and author of ''Historia General del Reino de Chile''. He studied in his hometown, where he also joined the Society of Jesus. He came to Chile in the year 1629, without ha ...

, “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 {{Araucanía-geo-stub

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