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Any objections to merging with
Tucapel (commune) into this article? The two articles seem to overlap quite a bit. If the geography is roughly the same, maybe the article can just explain the history from the historic region to the
town and comuna it is today. -
Ruodyssey (
talk)
12:11, 5 January 2011 (UTC)reply
Between this article and the
other, there are no less than four statements about the origin of the name "Tucapel." None of them are referenced, so I'm not sure who or what its namesake is. I didn't see anything on the
Municipal website either. Any ideas/sources for which of these is true?
In
Mapudungun its name means "To seize or to take by force". (also on Spanish Wiki)
Tucapel is also the name of a famous leader from that region in the first resistance against the Spanish mentioned in
Alonso de Ercilla's
epic poemLa Araucana.