Significant1878 – 1885 · 7 years

Conquest of the Desert (Patagonia)

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Patagonia · Argentina

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

Argentine military campaign to conquer southern Patagonia from indigenous peoples. Resulted in Mapuche and Tehuelche displacement and marginalization.

Belligerents3

Argentina
Mapuche
Tehuelche peoples

ON THE MAPMapuche / Araucanía

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 1

Battle of Apeleg1883

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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