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History of El Quisco


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ound a colony and a pucar�, task that entrusted to his son Tala Canta Inca Ilabe.

He possessed authority to name curacas or governors, simultaneously was depending on the Inca�s Cusco , His mandate was fruitful since there could establish the social, political and economic system typical of the Inca Empire, do distributions of land, of community property and initiate the constructions of works of common good, as ways, granaries to guard the fruits of the crops and the construction of the housings. The agricultural and cattle production achieved such a development that allowed to send food towards the pukaras of the north.

Spanish conquest

Quisco wharf

In 1541, the captain Pedro de Valdivia, his soldiers, yanaconas and Indians of service, entered to the basin of Mapocho river for the Inca way by the way that today occupies the Independence Avenue, Santiago de Chile of the city of Santiago de Chile, crossed Mapocho river, advanced five blocks and took possession of the principal buildings of this administrative center. Within one year, founded a Spanish city bigger than Inca that existed there with a Plaza de Armas initiating with this the Spanish Conquest. This Plaza de Armas was designed on a standard military fashion based on a grid pattern, taken from the Roman Castrum, of which one of the blocks would be left vacant to form the Plaza de Armas. It is often surrounded by governmental buildings, churches, and other structures of cultural or political significance. The name derives from the fact that this area would be a refuge in case of an attack upon the city, from which arms would be supplied to the defenders.

In times of Valdivia, were recorded the presence of Indian fishermen in the Central Zone.

" Aliamapu (Valparaiso) was inhabited ... for this special race of aborigines that preserves still your type, your name and up to his your humble exercise of the sea ... the former Changos " "

� Benjam�n Vicu�a
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