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CHAPTER IL 



Division of the Araucanian State ; Its political Form 

 and civil Institutioiis, 



ALTHOUGH in their settlements the Arauca- 

 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 tetrarchates, that are nearly equal, to which 

 they give the names of laiiquen-mapiiy the maritime 

 country ; lelbun-mapu, the plain country ; inapire- 

 mapUy the country at the foot of the Andes ; and 

 pire-mapu^ or that of the Andes. Each Uthalmapii 

 is divided into five aillaregiies, or provinces ; and 

 each aillaregue into nine regues, or counties. 



The .maritime country comprehends the provin- 

 ces of Arauco, Tucapel, Illicura, Boroa and Nag- 

 tolten ; the country of the plain includes those of 

 Encol, Puren, Repocura, Maquegua and Pviariqui- 

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

 Colhue, Chacaico, Quecheregua, and Guanagua ; 

 and in that of the Andes is included all the vallies 

 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 Lonquil- 

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

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



