Destruction of Seven Cities

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The Destruction of the Seven Cities in Arucana was a result of the great Mapuche revolt in 1598. The revolt was triggered following the news of the battle of Curalaba in on the 23rd of December 1598, where the toqui Pelantaru ambushed and killed the Spanish governor Martín García Óñez de Loyola. Over the next few years Pelantaru was able to destroy or force the abandonment of seven Spanish cities in Mapuche territory: Santa Cruz de Oñez (1599), Valdivia (1599), Angol (1599), La Imperial (1600), Villarrica (1602), Osorno (1604), and Arauco (1604).