History of the city - Santiago de Chile

           Is a considered fact that indegenous people lived in this area over 10.000 years ago as a nomadic groups that used to follow the rivers searching for water, fruits and also took the advantage to hunt some animals could aproach to drink some water.

           We have found evidence that told us that 900 years B.C. this groups of people evolved and developed several techniques of agriculture and pottery that transformed the way of life for this groups and allow them to settle down into a specific area.

The Incas:
    
          In the current land of chile during the reign of  "Tupac Yupanqui" (1438-1471) the conquest of Diaguita people in the nothern valleys and also "Picunches" that used to live in the central valley, known at that time as Aconcagua valley took part, expanding in this way their empire even to the sorrounding area of "Maule River" where the battle of Maule decides the limits between "Picunches Promaucaces" and the Inca empire forces.

The Spanish:

           In 1532 the first spanish expedition inside the "Tawantinsuyu" or Inca empire, commanded by Francisco Pizarro achieves the control by "Atahualpa" kidnap, that finally means the end of the empire, then in 1536 a soldier called Diego de Almagro, ask for permission to come to this lands searching for gold and fortune, he took the mountain range path during winter, this was a bad choice and killed more than 50% of his men, finally when he got to chile, unfortunelly for his purposes didn´t find any gold, then he returned to Peru, this time they took the desert path and finally when they got to el Cuzco, they said that in Chile only exists an useless metal called cooper.         

           Four years later another spanish soldier called Pedro de Valdivia also asked for permission to explore Chile but he wasn´t interested in gold, was looking for honor and glory, thus Valdivia left "El Cuzco" the firsts days of 1540 with a few men and one spanish woman called "Ines Xuarez".

           Then they got to Aconcagua valley almost 1 year later in december of  that year, and finally they stablish their camp on "Huelén" hill the firsts days of february in 1541 and finally in February 12th Valdivia stablished and found the city, called "Santiago de la nueva extremadura"