Boroa was a town in Araucanía,

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on the shores of

Cautín River The Cautín (Rio Cautín) is a river in Chile. It rises on the western slopes of the Cordillera de Las Raíces and flows in La Araucanía Region. The river's main tributary is the Quepe River. The city of Temuco is located on the Cautín River ...

. The region near the town south of the Cautin River between the

Boroa Boroa was a town in Araucanía, Chile 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 of Boroa. The site of the town was founded as a Spanish fort ...

and

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s 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 Empi ...

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

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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),

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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 ( or ) was a series of coordinated Mapuche attacks against Spanish Empire, Spanish settlements and forts in colonial Chile. It was the worst military crisis in Chile in decades, and contemporaries even considered the ...

. 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 Cienfuegos Francisco Solano Asta-Buruaga y Cienfuegos (July 21, 1817 – June 13, 1892) was a Chilean politician and lawyer A lawyer is a person who is qualified to offer advice about the law, draft legal documents, or represent individuals in legal m ...

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Diego de Rosales Diego is a Spanish masculine given name. The Portuguese equivalent is Diogo. The etymology of Diego is disputed, with two major origin hypotheses: ''Tiago'' and ''Didacus''. The name also has several patronymic derivations, listed below. ...

, “Historia General del Reino de Chile”, Flandes Indiano, 3 tomos. Valparaíso 1877 - 1878. *

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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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