Major conflict1536 – 1773 · 237 years

Araucanian War

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Estimated casualties

350Ksingle estimate · no range published

Nearly 300-year conflict between Spanish colonial forces and the Mapuche people of Chile, one of the longest indigenous resistance movements.

Belligerents2

Spanish Empire
Mapuche peoples

ON THE MAPSpanish Empire (Americas)

Conflict graph

SUB-CONFLICTS · 3

Battle of Mariguenu1554
Battle of Mataquito1557
Battle of Curalaba1598

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Araucanian War (1536 – 1773). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/araucanian-war-mapuche-resistance · Sources & methodology