TEMUCO:
capital Of the IX region of the Araucanía. Been founded
in 1881 it prospered quickly as city because of a multinational
emigration, especially of Spaniards, French and German, to become
today one of those of bigger development of the country.
Here
you will find the biggest and more varied sample in the Mapuche
Culture.
At
the present time it has 211,000 inhabitants approximately, it
is located in the riverside of the Cautín river and 162
kilometers to the west of the volcano Llaima that together with
the volcano Villarrica, has the record of 10 eruptions each one
during the XX century.
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