Carelmapu (lit. from

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 ...

"Green Land") is a port and town () at the western end of

Chacao Channel The Chacao Channel () is located in Los Lagos Region, Chile and separates Chiloé Island from mainland Chile. The channel is about 40 km long and 4 km wide and connects the Pacific Ocean and Gulf of Ancud. The channel was created during the Quat ...

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. Carelmapu was established by the Spanish in 1602 as San Antonio Ribera de Carelmapu following the

Destruction of Seven Cities The Destruction of the Seven Cities () is a term used in Chilean historiography to refer to the destruction or abandonment of seven major Spanish outposts in southern Chile around 1600, caused by the Mapuche and Huilliche uprising of 1598. The ...

. In 1643 Carelmapu was sacked and its church vandalized by the Dutch corsair Hendrick Brouwer. On March 6, 1676 Carelmapu received the exhausted survivors of Pascual de Iriarte's expedition to the

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Fort system

During

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Carelmapu was the site of a small fort system made up of Fuerte de Carelmapu just west of Carelmapu, the sentinel outpost of Astillero and the

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of Coronel. The last two were not located in Carelmapu proper but further east along the northern shores of

. The original Fuerte de Carelmapu was built in wood in 1603. At present remnants of it can be found in a deteriorated state.

References

Populated places in Llanquihue Province Populated coastal places in Chile Populated places established in 1602 1602 establishments in the Viceroyalty of Peru Coasts of Los Lagos Region {{LosLagos-geo-stub