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.
The atlas holds 5 border frames for Mapuche (Araucanía & Puelmapu) — the shape you scrub through changes in 100 · 1536 · 1604 · 1861 · 1884.
A cultural history of the Mapuche from resistance through the Chilean state to the present.
Chile's national history covering the Biobío frontier and the Occupation of Araucanía (broad context).
The epic that gave the Mapuche (Araucanians) their literary name in the Hispanic world, portraying their resistance to Spanish conquest with unusual admiration for the era.