Quilacoya River is located in the Hualqui commune of Concepcion Province of Chile . It has course of about 40 kilometers with a small volume. It originates in the southern slopes of the series of heights of Lucay that run from east to west in the southern part of the commune of Florida . It runs to the southwest to join the Bío Bío River on the North bank nine kilometers above the town of Hualqui .
4-599: The Quillacoya River was the location of the Moluche rehue of Quillacoya within the Hualqui aillarehue . In the upper part of the river it is joined by the riachuelo Millahue and other small streams in which rich placer gold mines were discovered in 1552 by Governor Pedro de Valdivia . The governor formed a mine there in October 1553 with great number of Mapuche workers, who abandoned it immediately after his death at
8-694: A river in Chile is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Moluche The Moluche ("people from where the sun sets" or "people from the west") or Nguluche are an indigenous people of Chile . Their language was a dialect of Mapudungun , a Mapuche language . At the beginning of the Conquest of Chile by the Spanish Empire the Moluche lived in what came to be known as Araucanía . The Moluche were called Araucanos ("Araucanians") by
12-659: The Spanish. Descendants of the Moluche and the Pehuenche and Huilliche later migrated into Argentina in later centuries mixing with the local tribes. This Araucanization made their language the common spoken language in the region. This article related to an ethnic group in South America is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Chile -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Argentina -related article
16-518: The end of that year. The working of these mines began again later, but soon afterward they were exhausted. The name Quilacoya derives from the Mapudungun for three coyán, formed from quyla , "three", and from coyán , the Moluche name for the Nothofagus obliqua . This Biobío Region location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to
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