Temucuicui

Temucuicui or Temocuicui (from Mapudungun Temu kuykuy, "temu bridge") is a locality made up a group of Mapuche communities in the commune of Ercilla, Malleco Province, Araucanía Region, in Chile.

Temucuicui
Temucuicui is located in Chile
Temucuicui
Temucuicui
Coordinates: 38.090556°S 72.433056°W / -38.090556; -72.433056
RegionAraucanía
ProvinceMalleco
MunicipalityErcilla
CommuneErcilla
Government
 • TypeMunicipal
Population
 (2017[1])
 • Total271
 Census not carried out as usual given incidents
Time zoneUTC−04:00 (Chilean Standard)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−03:00 (Chilean Daylight)
Area codeCountry + town = 56 + 45

The Mapuche communities established themselves in Temucuicui in 2002 when the National Corporation for Indigenous Development handed over the Fundo Alaska.[2] In the last decades the communities of Temucuicui have had a conflict, at times physically violent, with the forestry company Forestal Mininco, leading to the detention and imprisonment of community members in the prisons of Angol and Cañete.[3] Some inhabitants of Temucuicui have also had legal disputes with farmer Héctor Urban whose family owns land nearby.[4][5]

During the 2017 census the communities of Temucuicui could not be registered as in other places given incidents the day before the census.[6] Later, the National Statistics Institute counted 271 inhabitants and 85 homes divided among five communities: Autónoma, Tradicional, Ignacio Queipul I, Ignacio Queipul II and Ignacio Queipul III.[1]

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References
  1. Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas. "Datos Censo 2017". Datos censales referidos a las manzanas 103 a 107, 4º distrito censal de la comuna de Ercilla (in Spanish). Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  2. "El caso del robo de madera que revela el eslabón entre este delito y radicales de Temucuicui". 29 June 2021.
  3. Rodríguez, Sergio (December 8, 2013). "Temucuicui, la comunidad que vive en alerta". La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved April 16, 2017.
  4. "Quién es Héctor Urban, el recién electo consejero republicano por la Araucanía que sufrió un nuevo atentado en Ercilla". Ex-Ante (in Spanish). 2023-05-10. Retrieved 2023-05-31.
  5. Alday, John (2023-05-19). "Quién es Héctor Urban, consejero republicano de La Araucanía". Lupa Constitucional (in Spanish).
  6. "Revisa como (no) se vivió el Censo en la comunidad Temucuicui". La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved April 20, 2017.
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