Capitán Pastene

Capitán Pastene
Town

Italian immigrants to Capitán Pastene in southern Chile
Capitán Pastene

Location in Chile

Coordinates: 39°16′36″S 71°58′28″W / 39.27667°S 71.97444°W / -39.27667; -71.97444
Country  Chile
Region Araucanía
Province Malleco
Foundation 10 March 1904
Population
 • Urban 2,600
Time zone CLT

Capitán Pastene is a town formed by Italian immigrants, located in the commune of Lumaco in the Araucanía Region of Chile.

History

Several houses recall the days of the earliest settlers of the 87 families, with nearly 770 members, who arrived in 1904 and 1905 from Modena in two successive migrations to focus initially on agriculture and forestry work.[1]

Settlers arrived from the north Italian region of Emilia Romagna (Bologna and major cities such as Modena) and left a generation of Italo-Chilean that lasts to this day, which has contributed to enriching the local culture.

Now Capitán Pastene has 2.600 inhabitants many of whom are descendents from that first group from Modena. But it is estimated that throughout the region known as "Pastene", the people with kinship ties with emigrants from Modena are over 16,000. Indeed, the chileans of modena descent[2] are to be included between 800,000 Chileans of Italian ancestry (distant or close), including the Italian-Argentine transplanted in Chile.[3]

Currently there it is a considerable revival of Italian traditions in the region of Capitan Pastene.

Juan Bautista Pastene

Juan Bautista Pastene, for whom the town is called Capitán Pastene, was a Genoese maritime explorer, was among the first to explore the Pacific in the sixteenth century. It appears as a lieutenant of Pedro de Valdivia and when King Charles V ordered the exploration of southern Chile, this task was entrusted to Pastene.

Twin cities

Capitán Pastene has been proposed to be nominated "comune" of southern Chile and so be a twin city of Pavullo, a small town near Modena. From Pavullo moved most of the original settlers.

References

  1. ↑ Story with detailed information on the "Nuova Italia" colony
  2. ↑ L’Emigrazione Modenese
  3. ↑ (Spanish) Italianos en Chile La colonización italiana en Chile, fragmentos de una travesía desde el norte de Italia a Valparaíso de Chile.

See also

Coordinates: 38°11′S 73°00′W / 38.183°S 73.000°W / -38.183; -73.000

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