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Contulmo
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Contulmo (Mapudungun: "place of transit") is a Chilean town and commune in Arauco Province, Biobío Region. Colonized by Germans of Berlin since 1884.

Key facts

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Contulmo
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Town and Commune
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Comuna de Contulmo.svg
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Map of the Contulmo commune in the Biobío Region
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Map of the Contulmo commune in the Biobío Region
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Chile
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bottom
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175
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Location in Chile
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city
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Chile
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Biobío Region
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Arauco Province
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Municipality

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Contulmo (Mapudungun: "place of transit") is a Chilean town and commune in Arauco Province, Biobío Region. Colonized by Germans of Berlin since 1884.

== History == In December 1612, a group made up of three religious Jesuit missionaries and five Mapuche leaders were murdered by a fit of rage by the Mapuche leader Anganamón, from a nearby community, who wanted back some of his wives who had escaped from him. This event marked the end of the so-called "Defensive War", a military strategy of the Spanish Empire against the Mapuches in those territories during the Arauco War.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Contulmo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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