Carelmapu

Carelmapu
Church of Carelmapu
Church of Carelmapu
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Coordinates: 41°44′45″S 73°42′23″W / 41.74583°S 73.70639°W / -41.74583; -73.70639
RegionLos Lagos
ProvinceLlanquihue
MunicipalityMaullín
CommuneMaullín
Government
 • TypeMunicipal
 • AlcadeJorge Westermeier Estrada
Elevation
5 m (16 ft)
Population
 (2002[1])
 • Total
2,903
Time zoneUTC−04:00 (Chilean Standard)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−03:00 (Chilean Daylight)
Area codeCountry + town = 56 + 65

Carelmapu (lit. from Mapudungun "Green Land") is a port and town (Spanish: pueblo) at the western end of Chacao Channel, southern Chile. Carelmapu was established by the Spanish in 1602 as San Antonio Ribera de Carelmapu following the Destruction of Seven Cities. In 1643 Carelmapu was sacked and its church vandalized by the Dutch corsair Hendrick Brouwer.[2][3] On March 6, 1676 Carelmapu received the exhausted survivors of Pascual de Iriarte's expedition to the Strait of Magellan.[4]

  1. ^ Chile: Ciudades, pueblos, aldeas y caseríos, Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas, June 2005, retrieved January 10, 2014
  2. ^ Lane, Kris E. (1998). Pillageing the Empire: Piracy in the Americas 1500–1750. M.E. Sharpe. p. 89. ISBN 9780765630834.
  3. ^ de Rosales, Diego (1878). Vicuña Mackenna, Benjamín (ed.). Historia general de el reyno de Chile. Flandes indiano (PDF) (in Spanish). Vol. III. Valparaíso: Imprenta de El Mercurio. pp. 219–220.
  4. ^ de Vea, Antonio (1886). "Expedición de Antonio de Vea". Anuario Hidrográfico de la Marina de Chile (in Spanish). Valparaíso. p. 587.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)