The Araucanization (Spanish: Araucanización) was the process of expansion of Mapuche culture and language into the patagonic plains. Historians disagree in the time of the expansion but it would have occured sometime beetwen 1550 and 1850. Amerindian peoples such as the Tehuelches adopted the mapudungun as their main language (their own name is in mapudungun). Mapuche (Mapudungun; Che, People + Mapu, of the Land) are the original Amerindian inhabitants of Central and Southern Chile and Southern Argentina. ... In orange the area most commonly defined as Patagonia. ... Events February 7 - Julius III becomes Pope. ... 1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Mapudungun test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator Mapudungun (mapu means earth and dungun means to speak) is a language isolate spoken in central Chile and west central Argentina by the Mapuche (mapu is earth and che means people) people. ...
On the morning of Aug. 5, troops of the Reveis Pizarro group of the 18th Army Brigade in Saravena broke into the house of union leader Jorge Prieto, forcing him and his compañera out of the house barefoot, without a chance to properly dress.
The commission members thus became witnesses themselves--to the courage and determination of the Araucan peasants and workers, who bravely gave testimonies and united during this process of mourning, with a fierce resolve to continue the struggle.
Arauca, situated in the northeast of the country, is on the border of Venezuela, Colombia's second-biggest trading partner.
Travel to Venezuela, Venice of America, not only for its location in the Caribbean Atlantic and closeness to the Andean mountain system, but also for being a geographical mosaic of beautiful diversity spread out through federal states and its rivers, irregular coasts, flora, fauna, economy and its heterogeneous population.
This is the land of Araucan, Teques and Caracas aborigines.
Venezuela is more than the Venice of America, not only for its location in the Caribbean Atlantic and closeness to the Andean mountain system, but also for being a geographical mosaic of beautiful diversity spread out through federal states and its rivers, irregular coasts, flora, fauna, economy and its heterogeneous population.