A Mapuche community took a hill in the Loncoche commune, La Araucanía region.

It’s about the hill St. Lucia o Chufquen which is located in the northern sector of Loncoche, a few meters from the center of the commune, which was occupied during the afternoon of this Saturday Autonomous Community José Huenumilla.

The members of the community assure that an extension of that land belonged to their ancestors, whose territory would have been usurped after the arrival of the Chilean State to La Araucanía.

This was indicated by one of the representatives of the Virginia Moya Huenumilla community, who a few days ago, through a video broadcast on social networks of the Loncoche Station Cultural Center, announced the action.

“It has been 140 years that it was lost, that the State, through the military, mutilated us, took away our territory as a family,” said the Mapuche leader.

He added that “I stand here, and I value Mapuche customary law, I stand here, because I was the owner of this. I would not be the owner of everything, but this was my grandfather ”.


In the space that is taken, which would be of fiscal property, canvases were placed with the name of the community and flags of the Mapuche people and it is not yet known if there will be an order for their eviction.