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Mapuche (Araucanía & Puelmapu)

100 – present
Native nationSouth America

The unconquered nation of the southern forests, the only American people to halt both the Inca and the Spanish empires for three centuries at the Biobío line.

Survived the 1861-1883 Occupation of Araucanía into reservations; today nearly two million strong across Chile and Argentina, the largest Indigenous nation of the Southern Cone, still pressing land claims in 2026.

Borders in 2026 · drawn from 5 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 5 border frames for Mapuche (Araucanía & Puelmapu) — the shape you scrub through changes in 100 · 1536 · 1604 · 1861 · 1884.

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