Río de La Laja
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Río de La Laja Río Laja |
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 The river system of the Río Bío Bío |
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 Chile
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| River system | Río Bío Bío | |
| Drain over | Río Bío Bío → Pacific Ocean | |
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Laguna de La Laja 37 ° 22 ′ 37 ″ S , 71 ° 22 ′ 26 ″ W |
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| Source height | 1300 m | |
| muzzle | near San Rosendo and La Laja in the Río Bío Bío coordinates: 37 ° 16 ′ 12 ″ S , 72 ° 43 ′ 28 ″ W 37 ° 16 ′ 12 ″ S , 72 ° 43 ′ 28 ″ W
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| length | 140 km | |
| Catchment area | 4040 km² | |
| Right tributaries | Río Polcura | |
 The Laja waterfalls |
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The Río de La Laja or Río Laja is a right (northern) tributary of the Río Bío Bío , which flows through Region VIII in Chile . It has a length of 140 km and a catchment area of 4,040 km².
The Laja rises from the lake Laguna de La Laja , which is about 85 km east of the town of Los Ángeles . It flows mainly in a westerly direction.
At the confluence with the Bío Bío there is a coalesced settlement core, consisting of the places San Rosendo on the right and La Laja , capital of the Laja municipality of the same name , on the left bank, with a total of approx. 26,000 inhabitants. In San Rosendo there was an important branch of the railway with the appropriate infrastructure for travelers, as the line to Concepción branched off from the main line from southern Chile to Santiago de Chile .
About 25 km before the mouth of the Río Laja are the Laja waterfalls ( Salto del Laja ).
About 50 km west of Laguna on the Rio Laja located, the place is Tucapel (13,000 inhabitants), named after the Arauco War fought Fort Tucapel , where in 1553 the Conquistador Pedro de Valdivia of Mapuche - Indians captured and then killed was . The historic fort was, however, south of the city of Arauco on the Pacific coast in a different area.
There are four hydropower plants on the upper reaches of the Laja : the Abanico and Antuco power plants , which primarily use the water from Lake Laguna de La Laja, and the Quilleco and Rucúe power plants , which are diversion plants . For the latter two power plants, a dam was built a little below the town of Antuco, which diverts the water of the Laja into a canal.
The name of the river is believed to be of Spanish origin; in the Araucanian language he was called Niequetén or, in the spelling of the Spanish chronicler Gerónimo de Vivar, Nihuequetén , as documented in 1558 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Cuenca del río Bío Bío - Diagnóstico y clasificación de los cursos y cuerpos de agua según objetivos de calidad. (PDF; 1.2 MB, p. 8) (No longer available online.) Gobierno de Chile, Dirección General de Aguas ( Water Authority ), December 2004, archived from the original on May 13, 2015 ; Retrieved May 7, 2015 (Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Carlos González Vargas, Hugo Rosati Aguerre: Métodos y formas de resistencia indígena en la crónica de Gerónimo de Bibar. In: Diálogo Andino - Revista de Historia, Geografía y Cultura Andina 38, Universidad de Tarapacá, Arica , Chile, December 2011, pp. 45–73: 59.
