Temucuicui or Temocuicui (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 ...
'' ''Temu kuykuy'', "
temu bridge") is a locality made up a group of
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 ...
communities in the commune of
Ercilla,
Malleco Province
Malleco Province () is one of two provinces in the southern Chilean region of La Araucanía (IX). Its population as of the 2017 census is 205,124, and it covers an area of . The provincial capital is the city of Angol.
Malleco Province is known ...
,
Araucanía Region
The Araucanía ( ), La Araucanía Region ( ) is one of Chile's 16 first-order administrative divisions, and comprises two provinces: Malleco in the north and Cautín in the south. Its capital and largest city is Temuco; other important cities ...
, 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 ...
.
The Mapuche communities established themselves in Temucuicui in 2002 when the
National Corporation for Indigenous Development handed over the
Fundo Alaska. In the last decades the communities of Temucuicui have had a conflict, at times physically violent, with the forestry company
Forestal Mininco
Forestal Mininco is the forestry branch of wood product and woodpulp company CMPC. According to CMPC "Forestal Mininco territorially manages the forest heritage of CMPC in Chile."
In the last decades Forestal Mininco have had a conflict, at time ...
, leading to the detention and imprisonment of community members in the prisons of
Angol
Angol is a commune and capital city of the Malleco Province in the Araucanía Region of southern Chile. It is located at the foot of the Cordillera de Nahuelbuta and next to the Vergara River, that permitted communications by small boats to the ...
and
Cañete. Some inhabitants of Temucuicui have also had legal disputes with farmer
Héctor Urban whose family owns land nearby.
During the 2017 census the communities of Temucuicui could not be registered as in other places given incidents the day before the census.
Later, the National Statistics Institute counted 271 inhabitants and 85 homes divided among five communities: Autónoma, Tradicional, Ignacio Queipul I, Ignacio Queipul II and Ignacio Queipul III.
See also
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Shooting of Camilo Catrillanca
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Mapuche conflict
The Mapuche conflict () involves indigenous Mapuche communities, known by the foreigners as the Araucanians, located in Araucanía and nearby regions of Chile and Argentina.
The first attack, marking the beginning of the period of violence i ...
References
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Populated places in Malleco Province