Qualla: La Frontera (Chile) https://qualla.com/la-frontera-chile en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: La Frontera (Chile) https://qualla.com/la-frontera-chile La Frontera (Chile): Introduction https://qualla.com/la-frontera-chile/ Most empires drew their borders against other empires. Spain drew this one against a people it could not conquer. South of the Bío Bío River, the Mapuche held their ground for almost three hundred years, defeating armies, burning cities, and forcing the most powerful empire on Earth to negotiate as an equal. The Spanish gave the long contested band of country a simple, telling name: La Frontera - The Frontier. It was the only real frontier the Spanish crown ever recognized inside its American dominions.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/3/v/6/la-frontera-chile-wp/63v6-la-frontera-chile-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full La Frontera (Chile): The Line in the River https://qualla.com/la-frontera-chile/ La Frontera was the region around the Bío Bío River - and, in its broader sense, the whole territory reaching south to the Toltén, the heartland of the Araucanía. The term took hold during the long generations when this river marked the southern edge of the Captaincy General of C...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/3/v/6/la-frontera-chile-wp/63v6-la-frontera-chile-the-line-in-the-river.mp3 0:06 2 full La Frontera (Chile): A Coastline of Forts https://qualla.com/la-frontera-chile/ Unable to advance, the Spanish dug in. Across the 17th century they laced the land between the Bío Bío and the Itata with a chain of forts, raising, losing, and rebuilding them with grim persistence. In 1601 the governor Alonso de Ribera began the work, fortifying the crossings a...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/3/v/6/la-frontera-chile-wp/63v6-la-frontera-chile-a-coastline-of-forts.mp3 0:06 3 full La Frontera (Chile): Negotiating With Equals https://qualla.com/la-frontera-chile/ What force could not settle, diplomacy eventually addressed. On 6 January 1641, beside the Quillén River, Spanish and Mapuche leaders met in a great assembly - a parlamento - and concluded the first peace treaty between the two peoples after nearly a century of the Arauco War. Th...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/3/v/6/la-frontera-chile-wp/63v6-la-frontera-chile-negotiating-with-equals.mp3 0:06 4 full La Frontera (Chile): The Engineer Who Became a Name https://qualla.com/la-frontera-chile/ By the late 18th century, the man steadily reshaping the frontier was an Irish-born engineer in Spanish service, Ambrosio O'Higgins. He built the fort of San Agustín de Mesamávida in 1777, raised Fort Príncipe Carlos on the Duqueco in 1788, and in 1796 re-founded the city of Osor...

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