Valdivia, Badajoz, a minor town near Badajoz in Extremadura. Other places named Valdivia loans the name from this town. Pedro de Valdivia was born here.
Ecuador
Valdivia, Ecuador, a minor town in the province of Guayas.
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Pedro de Valdivia is believed to have been born in Badajoz, Spain in 1500 (some sources put his date of birth as early as 1497) from a family of nobles.
Valdivia was not in the village at the time, and the defense of the city was led by Inés Suárez.
Valdivia decided to personally inspect the fort, but the indigenous forces attacked when the party was near the fort and Valdivia was captured.
Valdivia is a city in southern Chile, founded by Pedro de Valdivia, located at the confluence of the Calle Calle, Valdivia and Cau Cau rivers, some 15 km east of the coastal town and bay of Corral.
The city of Valdivia and the island of Chiloé were the two southernmost enclaves of the Spanish Empire and administratively depended directly from the Crown.
Even though after Pedro de Valdivia's death the border of the Spanish Empire shifted northwards, to the Biobio River, the city of Valdivia remained a Spanish enclave, and along with the island of Chiloé remained the southernmost locations of the Empire.
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