Lonquén (Mapudungun for "on the low lands") is a town in
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 ...
, located between the communities of
Talagante
Talagante () is a commune and the capital city of the province of the same name in the Santiago Metropolitan Region of central Chile. The word ''Talagante'' in Quechua comes from ''talacanta'', meaning "Lazo de Hechicero", which was the prope ...
and
Isla de Maipo
Isla de Maipo is a town and Communes of Chile, commune of the Talagante Province in central Chile's Santiago Metropolitan Region.
Geography
Isla de Maipo can be found in the Chilean Central Valley approximately southwest of the metropolitan area ...
, within the
Metropolitan Region of Santiago
Santiago Metropolitan Region () is one of Chile's 16 first-order administrative divisions. It is the country's only landlocked administrative region and contains the nation's capital, Santiago. Most commercial and administrative centers are loca ...
.
History
In pre-Columbian times, Lonquén was occupied by the cultures
Bato and
Llolleo. Later, it was a place of connection between the
Aymaras and the
Mapuche
The Mapuche ( , ) also known as Araucanians are a group of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina, including parts of Patagonia. The collective term refers to a wide-ranging e ...
s. When the Spaniards arrived, they created two estates under
Francisco Ruiz-Tagle Vestibules. They were inherited by his son Caesar. In 1928, the land was divided in three estates: Sorrento, Santa Teresa and the Recreation, in which the economy was based on agriculture. In the earthquake of 1971, the damage forced many people to leave.
Lime kiln
On 15 October 1973, 15 men were arrested in the community of
Isla de Maipo
Isla de Maipo is a town and Communes of Chile, commune of the Talagante Province in central Chile's Santiago Metropolitan Region.
Geography
Isla de Maipo can be found in the Chilean Central Valley approximately southwest of the metropolitan area ...
. Their remains were found on 30 November 1978 in abandoned lime
kilns
A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes. Kilns have been used for millennia to turn objects made from clay into ...
in Lonquén.
February 19, 2010, the Health Science Center of the University of Texas Laboratory delivered the results of their four-year analysis, identifying thirteen of the fifteen victims. These were Enrique Astudillo Álvarez, Omar Astudillo Rojas, Ramón Astudillo Rojas, Miguel Ángel Brant Bustamante, Nelson Hernández Flores, Carlos Hernández Flores, José Herrera Villegas, Iván Ordóñez Lama, Sergio Maureira Lillo, Sergio Maureira Muñoz, José Maureira Muñoz, Segundo Maureira Muñoz and Rodolfo Maureira Muñoz.
In January 1980, the lime kilns were dynamited.
People
Lonquén is the place in which
Víctor Jara
Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez (; 28 September 1932 – 16 September 1973) was a Chilean teacher, theatre director, theater director, poet, singer-songwriter and PCCh, Communist political activist. He developed Chilean theater by directing a bro ...
lived during his childhood.
See also
*
Fort Lonquén
*
Lonquén River
References
Bibliography
El caso de LonquenChile: The Furnaces of LonquenDocumentary Video the Furnaces of Lonquen
Populated places in Talagante Province
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