The Moluche ("people from where the sun sets" or "people from the west") or Nguluche are an indigenous people of Chile . Their language was a dialect of Mapudungun , a Mapuche language . At the beginning of the Conquest of Chile by the Spanish Empire the Moluche lived in what came to be known as Araucanía . The Moluche were called Araucanos ("Araucanians") by the Spanish.
3-883: Catirai or Catiray is the region of the Moluche Aillarehue of Catiray in old Araucanía . It is now the Santa Juana commune of the Concepción Province and the Nacimiento commune of the Bío Bío Province of the Bío Bío Region , of Chile. It includes the eastern slope of the mountains of the Nahuelbuta Range in its northern extremity where they descend toward the valley of the Biobío River and that contains
6-616: The flower of the trees, meaning short flowers. This Biobío Region location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Moluche Descendants of the Moluche and the Pehuenche and Huilliche later migrated into Argentina in later centuries mixing with the local tribes. This Araucanization made their language the common spoken language in the region. This article related to an ethnic group in South America
9-720: The sources of the streams that flow into the Culenco River , (tributary of the Tavolevo River ). Below the Tavolevo they flow directly into the Biobío. First the Rele River , then the riachuelos of Patagual and Pilún, Estero Huedilhue (in the valley of the town of Santa Juana ) and the riachuelos of Pileo and Tricauco. Catiray comes from the Mapudungun callyíi , to cut, and of raigheii ,
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