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'''Melirupu''' is a place in [[Arauco Province]] that is 12 kilometers to the southwest of [[Arauco, Chile]], in the direction of [[Quiapo, Chile|Quiapo]].  It was a small village of about 300 inhabitants in the late 19th century. The surrounding land had the same name.  The [[Mapudungun]] name, formed of {{transl|arn|meli}} and the alteration of {{transl|arn|rypy}}, means "four ways". It later became known as Millarupu, "gold way", and was corrupted into Millarapu or Millarapue or Melirupo.
This place was one of the [[rehue]]s of the [[Moluche]] [[aillarehue]] of Arauco, and the site of the [[Battle of Millarapue]] where the [[Mapuche]] [[Toqui]] [[Caupolicán]] was defeated after he assaulted the camp of Governor Don [[García Hurtado de Mendoza, 5th Marquis of Cañete|Garcia Hurtado de Mendoza]] on November 30, 1557.
== Sources ==
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=CYYCAAAAYAAJ&q=+%22Diccionario+geogr%C3%A1fico+de+la+Rep%C3%BAblica+de+Chile%22  Francisco Solano Asta-Buruaga y Cienfuegos, Diccionario geográfico de la República de Chile (Geographic dictionary of the Republic of Chile), Segunda Edición Corregida y Aumentada, Nueva York, D. Appleton y Compañía, 1899], pp. 439-40
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