World-changing1536 – 1818 · 282 years

Arauco War

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Arauco · Chile

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

The longest indigenous resistance in the Americas. Mapuche successfully resisted Spanish conquest for 282 years, maintaining independence in southern Chile until Chilean independence.

Belligerents2

Spanish Empire
Mapuche people

ON THE MAPSpanish Empire (Americas)

Sources

Wikipedia: Arauco War
Clodfelter, Warfare and Armed Conflicts (4th ed., 2017)
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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