Araucania

American  

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

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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Araucania

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

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

La Araucania is home to Mapuche communities that are reclaiming lands that have been turned over to companies in the forestry sector.

From Reuters ● Nov. 2, 2021

Immediately on his election, he dispatched an hundred and fifty messengers to every corner of the country, with the symbolical arrows to summon the martial youth of Araucania to the national army.

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