Pelantaro

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Pelantaro or Pelantarú (from the Mapuche pelontraru or "Shining Caracara") was a toqui or military leader of the Mapuche people during the second Mapuche uprising in 1598. He is credited with the death of the second Spanish Governor of Chile, Martín García Óñez de Loyola, during the Battle of Curalaba on December 21, 1598.

This provoked a general rising of the indigenous people associeted with the Mapuche, and they succeeded in destroying all of the Spanish settlements south of the Bio-bio River and some to the north of it (Santa Cruz de Oñez and San Bartolomé de Chillán in 1599). After this disaster, the following Governor, Alonso de Ribera, fixed a border and took of the suggestions of the Jesuit Luis de Valdivia to fight a defensive war.

At one point, Pelantaro had both the heads of Pedro de Valdivia and Martín Óñez de Loyola and used them as trophies and containers for chicha, a kind of alcohol. As a demonstatation of peaceful intentions, he gave them up in 1608.

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