Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche

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Vicente Carvallo y Goyeneche (1742 - 1816) Chilean soldier, author and historian born in Valdivia Chile in 1742. Author of the Descripcion Histórico Geografía del Reino de Chile, covering the history and geography of the Kingdom of Chile from the beginning of the Spanish conquest to 1789. The book remained unpublished for eighty years, until it was published between 1875 and 1876 by José Toribio Medina. The text is divided in two sections. In the first Carvallo has a narration of events between the beginning of the Conquest of Chile and the year 1789. The second section consists of a discription of all the provinces of the country and the customs of the Mapuche.

[edit] See also

• History of Chile

[edit] Source

• Carvallo y Goyeneche, Vicente, Descripcion Histórico Geografía del Reino de Chile (Description Historical Geography of the Kingdom of Chile), University of Chile: Document Collections in complete texts: Cronicles (on line in Spanish)