Universidad de La Frontera, or UFRO, is a public university in

Temuco Temuco () is a List of cities in Chile, city and Communes of Chile, commune, capital (political), capital of the Cautín Province and of the Araucanía Region in southern Chile. The city is located south of Santiago de Chile, Santiago. The cit ...

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 ...

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. It is a derivative university and part of the

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. UFRO boasts a student body with a variety of abilities and from a variety of backgrounds, many of them are

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 ...

descent.

Facilities

The university owns a property called Rucamanque, that is used for research, environmental education, and conservation. Rucamanque holds

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and

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forest.

Notable alumni

* Pedro Cayuqueo, Mapuche activist and journalist *

Gloria Dünkler Gloria Dünkler (born 1977) is a Chilean writer, and winner of the 2016 Pablo Neruda Award. She is best known for her poetry, although she also collects folktales. Biography Gloria Dünkler was born into a large family of artisans, musicians, an ...

, writer and recipient of the 2016

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Natividad Llanquileo Natividad Llanquileo Pilquimán (born July 14, 1984) is a Mapuche lawyer and human rights activist. Llanquileo was noted for her role as a spokesperson during the 2010 Mapuche hunger strike. She was a member of the Constitutional Convention dur ...

, attorney, Mapuche activist, and member of the

Chilean Constitutional Convention The Constitutional Convention () was the constituent body of the Republic of Chile in charge of drafting a new Political Constitution of the Republic after the approval of the national plebiscite held in October 2020. Its creation and regulatio ...

(2021–present) * Elisa Loncón, academic, Mapuche activist, and President of the

(2021–2022) * Andrea Parra, member of the

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(2018–present) and former Governor of the

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 ...

(2014–2016) *

Jorge Saffirio Jorge Alejandro Saffirio Espinoza (born 9 June 1593) is a Chilean politician and member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile. Early life Saffirio studied civil construction at the University of La Frontera. Political career He started his politic ...

, member of the

(2022–present) and former Governor of the

(2008-2010)

References

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