Araucania

American  

[ar-aw-key-nee-uh, ah-rou-kah-nyah] / ˌær ɔˈkeɪ ni ə, ˌɑ raʊˈkɑ nyɑ /

noun

1. a region in central Chile.

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Araucania British  

/ arauˈkanja, ˌærɔːˈkeɪnɪə /

noun

1. a region of central Chile, inhabited by Araucanian Indians

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Example Sentences

Firefighters were on Thursday battling 19 fires still burning in the hardest-hit regions of Araucania, Nuble, and Biobio.

From Barron's • Jan. 22, 2026

President Gabriel Boric said Monday that firefighters had managed to contain some of the blazes but that others remained "very active" and that new fires had broken out in the Araucania region bordering Biobio.

From Barron's • Jan. 20, 2026

Speaking at a briefing, Toha said that fires in the region of Biobio and Araucania have left a school and a church completely burned.

From Reuters • Feb. 18, 2023

The government of President Gabriel Boric has issued emergency declarations for the largely rural southern regions of Biobio, Nuble and Araucania in an effort to speed relief.

From Reuters • Feb. 5, 2023

The quarter-master, Cordova, while advancing by his orders to invade the maritime provinces of Araucania, was completely routed by Putapichion in the small district of Piculgue near Arauco.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 05 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert