Quiapo, Chile

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Quiapo is a place in Arauco Province that is 25 kilometers to the Southwest of Arauco and about 25 kilometers to the north of the port of Lebu to the east of Bahia del Carnero and 6.4 kilometers west of Villa Alegre. It is a low mountainous and thickly wooded area, that contains between its contours arable lands that have the same name and is also the location where two streams come together to form the headwaters of the Quiapo River. This place is the site of the Battle of Quiapo and where in 1566 Rodrigo de Quiroga built a small fort that was destroyed by the Mapuche several times and abandoned some years later. The name, altered to Quiapo and Quipco, was originally the Mapudungun Cuyapu or Cuyamupu.

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• Francisco Solano Asta-Buruaga y Cienfuegos, Diccionario geográfico de la República de Chile (Geographic dictionary of the Republic of Chile), SEGUNDA EDICIÓN CORREGIDA Y AUMENTADA, NUEVA YORK, D. APPLETON Y COMPAÑÍA, 1899. pg. 613.