Caupolicán
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Caupolicán (meaning 'polished flint' (queupu) or 'blue quartz stone' (Kallfulikan) in Mapudungun) was a toqui or war leader of the Mapuche people, who led the resistance of his people against the Spanish conquistadors who invaded the territory of today's Chile during the sixteenth century. His rule as Toqui lasted roughly from 1553–1558 AD.
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- Caupolican
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- Caupolican
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- Person.birth_place
- Pilmaiquén, Chile
- Person.death_date
- 1558
- Person.death_place
- Cañete, Chile
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- Capital punishment
- Person.predecessor
- Lincoyan (1551–1553)
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- Lemucaguin or Caupolican the Younger (1558)
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- Lemucaguin or Caupolican the Younger
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- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of death
- Cañete
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- military personnel
- Position held
- toqui
- Languages spoken
- Mapudungun
- Military rank
- toqui
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- Caupolicán
- date of death
- 1558-01-01
- described by source
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
- manner of death
- capital punishment
- date of birth
- 1600-00-00
- cause of death
- impalement
- ethnic group
- Mapuche
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- Biography
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- Battle of Lagunillas
- Election as Toqui
- Battle of Millarapue
- Battle of Cañete Fort
- Death
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Caupolicán (meaning 'polished flint' (queupu) or 'blue quartz stone' (Kallfulikan) in Mapudungun) was a toqui or war leader of the Mapuche people, who led the resistance of his people against the Spanish conquistadors who invaded the territory of today's Chile during the sixteenth century. His rule as Toqui lasted roughly from 1553–1558 AD.
==Biography== According to the poetic work La Araucana the primary known wife of Caupolican was Fresia, although she is also named Gueden or Paca by other authors. His only known child was named Lemucaguin, or Caupolican the younger. According to tradition and the writings of Fernando Alegria, Caupolican was of a grave countenance and was blind in one eye from childhood.
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