Temucuicui
Place in Malleco, Araucanía
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Temucuicui or Temocuicui (from Mapudungun Temu kuykuy, "temu bridge") is a locality made up a group of Mapuche communities in the commune of Ercilla, Malleco Province, Araucanía Region, in Chile.
Temucuicui | |
|---|---|
  Temucuicui | |
| Coordinates: 38.090556°S 72.433056°W | |
| Region | Araucanía |
| Province | Malleco |
| Municipality | Ercilla |
| Commune | Ercilla |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal |
| Population (2017[1]) | |
• Total | 271 |
| Census not carried out as usual given incidents | |
| Time zone | UTC−04:00 (Chilean Standard) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−03:00 (Chilean Daylight) |
| Area code | Country + town = 56 + 45 |
The Mapuche communities established themselves in Temucuicui in 2002 when the National Corporation for Indigenous Development handed over the Fundo Alaska.[2] In the last decades the communities of Temucuicui have had a conflict, at times physically violent, with the forestry company Forestal Mininco, leading to the detention and imprisonment of community members in the prisons of Angol and Cañete.[3] Some inhabitants of Temucuicui have also had legal disputes with farmer Héctor Urban whose family owns land nearby.[4][5]
During the 2017 census the communities of Temucuicui could not be registered as in other places given incidents the day before the census.[6] Later, the National Statistics Institute counted 271 inhabitants and 85 homes divided among five communities: Autónoma, Tradicional, Ignacio Queipul I, Ignacio Queipul II and Ignacio Queipul III.[1]