# Cangapol

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{{Short description|Indigenous chieftain in today's Argentina}}

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| name          = Cangapol
| image         = Cacique Cangapol.JPG
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| caption       = Chieftain Cangapol in a portrait by [Thomas Falkner](/source/Thomas_Falkner)
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| birth_date    = 1670
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| death_date    = {{Death date and age|1757|1670}} 
| other_names   = 
| occupation    =  Tehuelche cacique
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'''Cangapol''' was a [Tehuelche](/source/Tehuelche_people) [cacique](/source/cacique) from the area of Huilin, in the [Negro River](/source/R%C3%ADo_Negro_(Argentina)) Valley in today's [Argentina](/source/Argentina)<ref>[http://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/antropologia/article/viewFile/23728/pdf_799 Mandrini, Raúl José (2011). ''Sobre el Sutee entre los indígenas de las llanuras argentinas'']. Universidad Nacional del Centro, p. 269 {{in lang|es}}</ref> from 1735 to 1757.<ref name=pag>[http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/sociedad/3-185974-2012-01-22.html ''Los padres de la laguna''] by Carlos Rodríguez. [Página 12](/source/P%C3%A1gina_12), 22 January 2012 {{in lang|es}}</ref> Born in about 1670,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hux |first=Meinrado |title=Caciques puelches, pampas y serranos |publisher=Elefante Blanco |year=2003 |pages=92 |language=es}}</ref> he was the chieftain of the [nomadic](/source/nomadic) Leuvuche people, who moved through a huge area from the Negro River to the Vulcan hills, today known as Tandilia hills, between the modern cities of [Tandil](/source/Tandil) and [Mar del Plata](/source/Mar_del_Plata).<ref>''Descripción de Patagonia y de las partes adyacentes de la América Meridional'' by Thomas Falkner {{in lang|es}}</ref> The Leuvuches were called ''Serranos'' (people from the hills) by the Spaniards.<ref name=pag/> In 1751, Cangapol and his warriors expelled the [Jesuits](/source/Jesuit_Order) from [Laguna de los Padres](/source/Laguna_de_los_Padres) and destroyed the settlement built by them five years before.<ref name=pag/>  In 1753, he became an allied of the Spaniards against the [Mapuche](/source/Mapuche)s, who used to take profit of the Leuvuches' plunder raids north of the [Salado river](/source/Salado_River_(Buenos_Aires)) and then sought safe haven in [Chile](/source/Chile), leaving the Leuvuches to face the Spanish retaliation alone.<ref>Solís,  Leonardo León (1991). ''[http://es.scribd.com/doc/16619552/Maloqueros-y-conchavadores-en-araucania-y-las-pampas-17001800 Maloqueros y Conchavadores en Araucanía y Las Pampas, 1700 – 1800]''. Ediciones Universidad de La Frontera. Serie Quinto Centenario, [Temuco](/source/Temuco), 1991, pp. 35-37 {{in lang|es}}</ref> He died in 1757 and was succeeded by his son Nicolás.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bandieri |first=Susana |title=Hecho en Patagonia: la historia en perspectiva regional |publisher=[Universidad Nacional del Comahue](/source/Universidad_Nacional_del_Comahue) |year=2006 |isbn=9871154852 |pages=107 |language=es}}</ref>

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Category:1670s births
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Category:Governorate of the Río de la Plata
Category:18th-century Indigenous leaders in the Americas

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