Tucapel

Coordinates: 37°17′S 71°57′W / 37.283°S 71.950°W / -37.283; -71.950
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Tucapel
Town and Commune


Coat of arms
Coat of arms
Location of Tucapel commune in the Bío Bío Region
Location of Tucapel commune in the Bío Bío Region
UTC-3 (CLST[5])
Area code56 + 43
WebsiteMunicipality of Tucapel

Tucapel is a

epic poem La Araucana. Formerly belonging to the Ñuble Province, in the Yungay Department
. Near the town of Tucapel is the Plaza de San Diego de Tucapel. The capital of the commune is the town of Huépil, moving the municipality from Tucapel in 1967. In Mapudungun the name Huépil means "To seize or to take by force".

The main economic activities of the commune are commerce, agriculture and forestry.

History

Tucapel is an old foundation in the country, originally part of the Rere Province, in which three

La Frontera fortresses existed: Talcamávida, Yumbel
and San Diego de Tucapel.

The fortress of San Diego de Alcalá de Tucapel was founded by Pedro de Valdivia in 1552 on a hill in the valley of the Tucapel River at the present location of the city of Cañete. Near here, the conqueror died after being surprised and defeated at the Battle of Tucapel by Lautaro, after he had arrived to relieve the fortress, which Lautaro had already destroyed before December 25, 1553.

In 1557, the fortress and the later city of Cañete de la Frontera were later rebuilt by

pacification of Araucanía
.

In 1603 a new fort Tucapel was established on the site of the Valdivia's old fort by

Mapuche Uprising of 1723. It was abandoned and demolished by Gabriel Cano de Aponte in 1724 and he transferred its garrison and inhabitants to the bank of the Laja River near the Andes
where a new Plaza de San Diego de Tucapel was built and later a town of Tucapel has established.

Demographics

According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, Tucapel spans an area of 914.9 km2 (353 sq mi) and has 12,777 inhabitants (6,403 men and 6,374 women). Of these, 8,827 (69.1%) lived in urban areas and 3,950 (30.9%) in rural areas. The population grew by 6.3% (757 persons) between the 1992 and 2002 censuses.[3]

Administration

As a commune, Tucapel is a third-level

administrative division of Chile administered by a municipal council, headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years. The 2008-2012 alcalde is Jaime Sergio Veloso Jara (RN).[1][2]

Within the

PDC
) as part of the 13th senatorial constituency (Biobío-Coast).

References

Notes
  1. ^ a b "Asociación Chilena de Municipalidades" (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 January 2011.
  2. ^ a b "Municipality of Tucapel" (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 January 2011.
  3. ^ a b c d "National Statistics Institute" (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 December 2010.
  4. ^ "Chile Time". WorldTimeZones.org. Archived from the original on 13 July 2010. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  5. ^ "Chile Summer Time". WorldTimeZones.org. Archived from the original on 11 September 2007. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
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