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Merge? edit
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)
- The Tucapel article describes the "historical" part of the area, which now covers the commune. Yes, a merge might be worth. Support. Diego Grez (EMSIUB) (talk) 16:53, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
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)
- named for the Tucapel River
- The name of the region derived from the rehue and aillarehue of the Moluche people of the area between the Lebu and the Lleulleu Rivers.
- 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 poem La Araucana.