nna, 1936
The term "chango" appears not only in the toponymy, but also in the documents of the colonial era alluding to the Indian fishermen. According to the historian Joaqu�n Santa Cruz(1926), they were living fundamentally of the fishing and compilation of seafood and marine mammals.
Towards 1562 a great number of Changos of the central coast had disappeared already be because they were moved, chased or exterminated.
"Vicuna Mackenna affirms that the colonists of Santiago had news of a ship that had smashed against the coasts of Topocalma and the scanty survivors, amongwhom one was counting a black, they were cruelly murdered for the Indians who there were living, for such a motive " .. they happened in avenging them killing hundred for one, as it was the eye for an eye rule in such cases"
�Szmulewicz, 1984
The first precedents of Spanish settlement in the zone of El Quisco date back of 1570, when the Spanish family of Alonso de C�rdoba agrees in the place. Before it was namedHuallilemu (Mapudungun: forest of oakwood ), but then passed to call it El Totoral for the great quantity of totoras existing there.
Pirates
A replica of Golden Hind
From 1578, together with the neighbor Algarrobo and El Canelo were a hiding place of pirates as the English men Francis Drake, Thomas Cavendish, Richard Hawkins and Dutches like Oliver Van Noort and Joris van Spilbergen. Francis Drake would have been with his galleonGolden Hind in its bay, in December of 1578. He travels with two Japanese, that know themselves only for your Christian names, Cristhoper and Cosmas who were the first Japanese in circumnavigate the globe
Gin�s de Lillo
The works of Gin�s de Lillo allowed to have a finished record of the Chilean society of 17th century knew for diverse documents of the time that the peoples of the interior had fishermen in the coastal Cove s called ' " fishermen on the coast " Only in
