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    Pedro Gutiérrez de Valdivia or Valdiva (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpeðɾo ðe βalˈdiβja]; April 17, 1497 – December 25, 1553) was a Spanish conquistador and...
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    The city is named after its founder, Pedro de Valdivia, and is located at the confluence of the Calle-Calle, Valdivia, and Cau-Cau Rivers, approximately...
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    campaigns of conquest of Pedro de Valdivia. During the early phase of the Conquest of Chile, the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia conducted a nine-year...
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  • Pedro de Valdivia Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Pedro de Valdivia), (ICAO: SCPD) is an airport serving María Elena, a saltpeter mining facility in the Antofagasta...
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    Pedro de Valdivia Avenue is a major north-south avenue on the east side of Santiago, Chile. It is named after Pedro de Valdivia and passes through the...
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    given to a battle fought between Spanish conquistador forces led by Pedro de Valdivia and Mapuche (Araucanian) Indians under Lautaro that took place at...
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    Inés Suárez (redirect from Ines De Suarez)
    Spanish conquistadora who participated in the Conquest of Chile with Pedro de Valdivia, successfully defending the newly conquered Santiago against an attack...
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    that starts with the arrival of Pedro de Valdivia to Chile in 1541 and ends with the death of Martín García Óñez de Loyola in the Battle of Curalaba...
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    August 2, 1540, to Pedro de Valdivia while both were in Atacama after having been pardoned multiple times by the latter after de la Hoz tried to assassinate...
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    spent his teenage years as a personal servant of chief conquistador Pedro de Valdivia, but escaped in 1551. Back among his people he was declared toqui...
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    Pedro de Valdivia Bridge is an arch bridge spanning the Valdivia River. It connects downtown Valdivia with Teja Island, which houses the main campus of...
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  • Marina Ortiz de Gaete González (c. 1509 – April 1592) was the wife of Pedro de Valdivia, and played an important role in the politics of the conquest and...
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    conquistador Pedro de Valdivia over different grants to lands south of Peru. In 1547 Francisco de Villagra, one of Valdivia's men, had Sánchez de la Hoz executed...
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  • memoir of her own life. She narrates about her relationship with Pedro de Valdivia and the obstacles they had to overcome to conquer Chile and found...
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    purpose of celebrating the fourth centenary of Santiago's foundation by Pedro de Valdivia, Chile requested to host this tournament's edition. Because of that...
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    the Tornagaleones River and the Futa River. Pedro de Valdivia Bridge crosses the river in downtown Valdivia. The foraminiferal fauna of the wetlands adjoining...
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    inhabitants. However, the current name comes from the day in which Pedro de Valdivia conquered the hill, on December 13, 1540. That day celebrates "Santa...
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    Santiago (redirect from Santiago de Chile)
    133 ft) above sea level. Founded in 1541 by the Spanish conquistador Pedro de Valdivia, Santiago has served as the capital city of Chile since colonial times...
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    of the outnumbered town was led by Inés de Suárez, a female conquistador, while commander Pedro de Valdivia was elsewhere. Almost all of the town was...
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  • conquistador who participated in the expeditions of Pedro de Alvarado in present-day Guatemala and Pedro de Valdivia in Chile. Taken into captivity as a slave in...
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  • Valdivia culture Valdivia International Film Festival Deportes Valdivia Pedro de Valdivia (1497–1553), first royal governor of Chile and founder of several...
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    Francisco de Aguirre's force who joined Pedro de Valdivia's in the conquest of Chile in 1540. Jerónimo de Alderete was part of Pedro de Valdivia's expedition...
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    but Hernándo Pizarro spared his life. He traveled to Chile with Pedro de Valdivia and participated in the conquest of Chile. He was present at the foundation...
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    by Pedro de Gamboa, who was appointed by Pedro de Valdivia in 1541. The Investigator Rubén Stehberg from the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Chile...
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    conquerors attempt to found settlements in the Strait of Magellan, Pedro de Valdivia proposed the extension of the governorship of Chile to the strait...
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    back to 1550, when it was founded by Pedro de Valdivia as part of the Spanish Empire, under the name of Concepción de María Purísima del Nuevo Extremo, and...
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    relation letter from Pedro de Valdivia to emperor Charles V is one of the six Letters of relation written by Pedro de Valdivia to Charles V, Holy Roman...
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    duties. He married Inés de Suárez, the famous mistress of Pedro de Valdivia, when the Viceroy of Peru at the time ordered that Valdivia end the scandalous...
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    Keller, Carlos. Michimalonco, Pedro de Valdivia y el Nacimiento del Pueblo Chileno [Michimalonco, Pedro de Valdivia and the birth of Chile] (in Spanish)...
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    United Kingdom[citation needed]. Together with the former refinery at Pedro de Valdivia built in 1931, it was the largest saltpeter works with a combined...
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