Cañete (Chile)
 
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Cañete is a city in Chile in the Región del Bío-Bío . It is located about 154 km from Arauco . Cañete has around 16,000 inhabitants and is 71 m above sea level. The main tourist attractions are the Archaeological Museum and the Mapuche culture sites.
history
In the autumn of 1553, the Mapuche defeated a group of Spanish soldiers at Fort Tucapel in the Arauco War , killing the leader of the Spanish conquistadors in Chile, Pedro de Valdivia . That is not the same modern city Tucapel Tucapel the Río Laja is identical, lay a few kilometers from Cañete removed. On his campaign against the Indians described by Alonso de Ercilla , the Chilean governor García Hurtado de Mendoza built the new Fort Cañete in 1558 . He named the place after Cañete in the Spanish province of Cuenca , as he had the title of " Marquis of Cañete" ( Marqués de Cañete ). In 1602 the settlement was abandoned by the Spaniards and not settled again until 1868, when the previously independent Mapuche areas were attached to Chile.
The Chilean politician Juan Antonio Ríos Morales , who was President of Chile from 1942 to 1946, came from Cañete.
The city was particularly hard hit by the earthquake in February 2010 .
Individual evidence
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Coordinates: 37 ° 48 ′ S , 73 ° 24 ′ W