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CHAPTER IL 



Division of the Araucania?! State ; Its political Form 

 and civil Institutioiis. 



ALTHOUGH in their settlements the Aran ca- 

 nians are wanting in regularity, that is by no means 

 the case in the political division of their state, which 

 is regulated with much intelligence. They have di- 

 vided it from north to south into four uthal-mapus, 

 or parallel tetrarchatcs, that are nearly equal, to which 

 they give the names of lauquen-mapu, the maritime 

 country ; lelhun-mapu^ the plain country ; inapire- 

 mapUy the country at the foot of the Andes ; and 

 pire-mopu, or that of the Andes. Each Uthalmapu 

 is divided into five aillareguesy or provinces ; and 

 each aillaregue into nine regues, or counties. 



The maritime country comprehends the provin- 

 ces of Arauco, Tucapel, lUicura, Boroa and Nag. 

 token ; the country of the plain includes those of 

 Encol, Puren, Repocura, Maquegua and Mariqui- 

 na : that at the foot of the Andes contains Marven, 

 Colhue, Chacaico, Quecheregua, and Guanagua ; 

 and in that of the Andes is included all the vailles 

 of the Cordilleras, situated within the limits already 

 mentioned, which are inhabited by the Puelches.* 



* In the second and third articles of the regulations of Lonqui!- 

 mo, made in the year 1784, the limits of each Uthalmapu are ex- 

 pressly defined, and its districts marked out. It declares to bea¡,- 



