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Temuco

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Temuco (tām`kō), city (1990 est. pop. 211,700), capital of Araucania region, S central Chile, on the Cautín River. It is a commercial city dealing in cattle, lumber, wheat, and fruit. Temuco, founded in 1881, was the point from which the colonization of S Chile was begun, chiefly by German immigrants. The region was occupied by indigenous Araucanians; on a hill near Temuco, the treaty ending the last serious Araucanian uprising was signed (1881). Temuco has an Araucanian museum.
Temuco
a city in S Chile: agricultural trading centre. Pop.: 287 000 (2005 est.)

Temuco 

a city in Chile, situated in the Central Valley. Capital of Cautín Province. Population, 109,000 (1972). Temuco has a railroad station and is the trade center of an agricultural region. It has enterprises of the woodworking, leather, paper, and flourmilling industries.



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Visibility in Temuco, Chile, can be as little as five meters, she said.
00 Hardcover Mouton grammar library; 41 PM5463 A language of the territory around the city of Temuco in the Chilean province of Cautin, Mapuche is primarily spoken by an estimated 400,000 to one million indigenous, many of whom live as small-scale subsistence farmers or have immigrated as their culture eroded.
Tricolor has sales offices throughout the country, including the cities of Antofagasta, Concepcion, Temuco, Puerto Montt and Punta Arenas.
 
 
 
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