Chicureo (from Mapudungun chikümn rewe 'place where lances are set up') is a city located in Colina, an urban-suburban commune of Chile, Chacabuco Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. In 2017 it had a population of 10,975 inhabitants.[1]
Predominantly an agricultural area, Chicureo is home to several haciendas. As part of its history, Chicureo's 100-year-old northeast zone manor house, Hacienda Guay-Guay, is preserved intact.
History
Inca city below Santiago de Chile
The alignment of the Plaza de Armas, Santa Lucía Hill and El Abanico hill, with the sunrise during the summer solstice, and San Cristóbal Hill cutting the profile of the Plomo-Littoria during the winter solstice, It is a physical, concrete, and indisputable fact.[2]
Spanish Conquest
When Inés de Suárez, the woman who accompanied Pedro de Valdivia, ordered the execution of the Inca Quilicanta and seven captured caciques on September 11, 1541, to intimidate Michimalonco, the toqui who was attacking and burning Santiago to rescue the caciques,it was unclear whether she killed the cacique Apoquindo or the cacique of the village of Apoquindo. What is certain is that the various accounts of the time contain no record of a cacique by that name, and that the indigenous chief of the area was named Picuncahue; his settlement was located where the Las Condes Clinic is today.[3][4]
References
- ^ "Ciudades, pueblos, aldeas y caseríos 2019" (in Spanish). National Statistics Institute of Chile. p. 137. Retrieved 12 May 2025.
- ^ "Noticias - The Epoch Times en español" (in Spanish). es.theepochtimes.com. Retrieved 2026-04-30.
- ^ "Chile under the Inka empire"
- ^ jocelyn (2026-01-28). "El Camino del Inca en el Norte Grande" (in es-CL). CPI. Retrieved 2026-05-02.