Ralco Museum, High Bio Bio

Located in the Square of Ralco, this building has an area of 160 mt2. This museum houses Pehuenche culture and yet is an axis of conservation, exhibition and dissemination of traditional diversity, as well as promoter of Indian culture in the education of children and youth of the community, assisting in translation and chudungún publication of texts and encourages the teaching of this language among students in the area.

Arauco Partys and Traditions

Araucana Week

Date: February
Venue: Open spaces in the city (Colo Colo Zero beach, Plaza)
This activity is a town festival that invites all the living forces of the community to develop different activities in the celebration marked the Week of Arauco. Activities are recreational, sporting, cultural, tourism in order to motivate people to visit and enjoy their commune
Municipal funding and through private companies.

ARTISTIC EVENTS

Book Fair
Date: February
Place: Plaza de Armas
Promotion of Books and reading, enabling outdoor space for the community to get closer to books.
Municipal and private funding

ARTISTIC AREAS

Folklore groups and singers MUSIC
VISUAL Elias Mella Painter and Painting Workshops Private
CRAFTS Ceramic Antiqua
Literary Arts Writers Zulema Retamal, Oscar Campos Marín, Farid Metuaze

Public Library Agreement with DIBAM:
Biblioteca Luis Aguirre Market No 58
Head of Library Name: Mr. Enrique Fernandez

Fishing cove of Llico

Natural landscape of great force that is supplemented by the massive architecture, which shows the scale of it habitable.

Fishing cove of Tubul

Pictures landscape, with predominance of nature, especially in the area of the creek which is the most valuable. The creek is originated in an ancient Indian Village, subject to the mission of Arauco. There is evidence of its existence since the eighteenth century.

Pink house

Two-storey house, renovated in the 1960s, a period in which the proportion of introduced another window, oblivious to the original classic. The arch of the openings, proportion, quality of bill gates and some details of finishes gives this piece of a larger architectural typology.

Built Year: 1900

Address: San Martin 492 esq. Covadonga, Arauco.

White House

Housing large corner. The rhythm of the bays and arch denotes a historicist influence of the 1910s. Traditional model of the area. Gabled roof with ridge parallel to the street. Continuous façade, which characterizes the formation of urban space in the city.

Built Year: 1910

Address: Cochrane 1068, Arauco.

Housing orange with blue

Housing from 1945 or so. Modernized with oblong windows that popularized modern architecture in the 1950s. Traditional model of the area. Gabled roof with ridge parallel to the street. Continuous façade, which characterizes the formation of urban space in the city.

Built Year: 1945

Address: Cochrane 1038, Arauco.

Corner House brown

Housing continuous facade, simple volume. Applies to type of worker housing in the first half of the twentieth century. Traditional model of the area. Gabled roof with ridge parallel to the street. Continuous façade, which characterizes the formation of urban space in the city.

Built Year: 1930

Address: Cochrane esq. Galvarino, Arauco.

Arauco Housing

Housing broad front, which has further subdivisions. Keep your unit in the sections that have not changed the openings. Traditional model of the area for mining the type of housing. Gabled roof with ridge parallel to the street. Continuous façade, which characterizes the formation of urban space in the city.

Built Year: 1840
Address: A. 177-165 167 Prat, Arauco.

Axis Prat

Avenida urban landscape value, high amplitude that constitutes a major route of the city. It has a length of about 1000 mts. It is characterized by a width that is twice the size of the other axes of the city. On this street is channeling the flow of moving vehicles from the hills and from the downtown to the beach.

Address: Calle Prat, Arauco.

Housing Color Blue

Housing with corner store. Another example of horizontal volume and pace of the openings of architecture that dominates the city. Traditional model of the area for mining the type of housing. Gabled roof with ridge parallel to the street. Continuous façade, which characterizes the formation of urban space in the city.

Built Year: 1940

Address: Patria s / n corner Monsalve, Carampangue, Arauco.

Housing Color Orange

Housing horizontal volume that has lost the interest that had the simple rhythm of their openings, with doors opening and the demolition of part of it.

Built Year: 1913

Address: Patria s / n, Carampangue, Arauco.

White house

Housing in the early decades of the twentieth century, a shaping of the street type runner. His interest lies in the closeness of the facade and the rhythm of vertical slats established scab.

Construction Year: Unknown

Address: Patria s / n, Carampangue, Arauco.

Rustic Orange color

Housing provision in U. volumetric central volume focuses on a porch formed by the two smaller amounts that are below relate to the typical farm house of the 1920s. Feature that is accentuated with the glazed gallery and volume of income.

Built Year: 1910

Address: Patria s / n, Carampangue, Arauco.

House of Freesias

Housing single volume, with its heavily modified front. You value the vastness of the horizontal volume. Built in the early twentieth century.

Construction Year: Unknown

Address: Vicente Millan s / n, Carampangue, Arauco.

Yellow house with a runner

Housing with a runner, uncommon in the area, which responds to a typology in the villages of the regions VI and VII. Presents changes in fenestration. Built around the middle of the twentieth century.

Construction Year: Unknown

Address: Vicente Millan s / n, Carampangue, Arauco.

Green Water Color House

Traditional accommodation, large horizontal volume, which helps determine the characteristics of the continuous building which belongs to the towns and cities since colonial times. Built in the early twentieth century.

Construction Year: Unknown

Address: Vicente Millan s / n, Carampangue, Arauco.

House Color Yellow Red

Housing volume of a traditional horizontal floor. Amended in its fenestration. Entirely made of wood and clay tile roof. It belongs to a typology of the nineteenth century, widespread in the area. Its versatility allows it to adapt to different situations, with minimal intervention.

Built Year: 1933

Address: Vicente Millan s / n, Carampangue, Arauco.

House Color Cream

Housing a flat, traditional horizontal volume. The interest rate is given by the doors and fenestration denoting a classical influence. Built in the early decades of the twentieth century.

Built Year: 1915

Address: Vicente Millan s / n, Carampangue, Arauco.

Carampangue Square

Chilean traditional square of the second half of the twentieth century. Circular ring diagonal paths for walking and no particular cause for concern. Unless some introduced tree species and endemic.

Construction Year: Unknown

Address: Plaza, Carampangue, Arauco.

House Gaete

Housing costs, horizontal two-story volume, with architectural influence picturesqueness of spas in the first half of the twentieth century. Where still present the simple volume of the warehouse or barn. Corresponds to the house of the estate Llico, which had about 600 ha. Built between 1920 and 1930 by Filidor Gaete.

Year Built: 1920

Address: Costanera Llico, Arauco.

Construction Year: Unknown

Pedestrian Path

Scenic value set consisting of the pedestrian street and the houses that form it. Housing types that recur in vernacular architecture popular version of the house forms runner or chalet. Built around the 1960s. The creek is famous because she anchored the Netherlands expedition under Admiral Simon de Cordes, who was killed by the natives of the place. Its name derives from the traditional district of Madrid called Footbath.

Construction Year: Unknown

Address: Caleta Punta Lavapié. Arauco.

Lighthouse Point Lavapié

Sculptural motif in belonging to a landscape scene today reformulated typology of coastal lighthouses.

Construction Year: No ID

Address: Punta Lavapié End Road. Arauco.

Empty house in Point Lavapié

House in ruins, with scenic elements of strength. Language of the first stage of modern architecture, around 1945. With art deco ornaments.

Construction Year: Unknown

Address: Punta Lavapié End Road. Arauco.

Cemetery Point Lavapié

Cemetery that combines the natural landscape conditions and man-made landscape, a fragile symbiosis difficult to sustain over time. Constitutes today a unique typology.

Construction Year: Unknown

Address: Point Lavapié. Arauco.

Cemetery La Cal

Rural cemetery located in a privileged place in the landscape and road access. Graves predominate wooden lattice that gives the total unit and corresponding to types now discarded.

Construction Year: Unknown

Address: Route P. 22, Arauco.

Lookout Mountain and Old Fort Colo Colo

Place landscaping and gazebo. It dominates the city and represents an important reservoir for recreational activities, with adequate equipment. It is for the Spanish siege of the fort, under whose protection the modern city arose.

Address: Cerro Colo Colo, Arauco.

House Pucheu

Housing a flat belonging to the traditional urban typology. Classicist influence given by the rhythm and compositional order. Built probably in the early twentieth century. Wood structure and coating of galvanized iron plate wave girl.

Built Year: 1930

Address: 587 Covadonga esq. Serrano, Arauco.

Cerro Mirador the Virgin

Religious monument which is now badly damaged. Spatial Reference from the city and viewpoint of a large recreational and tourist potential.

Address: East of the city, Arauco.

Monument Caupolicán

Historic site, commemorating the exploits of Caupolicán, which had produced the historic feat of his election as leader.

Address: Carretera way Arauco, Arauco.

Bulding of Civil Register

Modern arch building in the 1940s. Expanded and modified with a probable second floor of a later date, within the picturesque spa trend.

Built Year: 1940

Address: Condell 436, Arauco.

State Bank Building

Architecture of the international movement, built around 1974. Metallic and composite structures reinforced masonry stucco, with wood and glass enclosure.

Built Year: 1974

Address: Condell 406, Arauco.

Square Corner House

Housing for a floor, with access on the corner. Traditional typology of the area. Presents changes to the fenestration. Structure and paneling. Clay tile roof. Built around 1940 with later modernization.

Built Year: 1940

Address: Chacabuco 400, Arauco.

Arauco Municipal Building

Building public architecture. Type of Ministry of Public Works, built around 1960. Horizontal two-story volume, regular and large income. Pertaining to the current style of German Expressionism.

Its material is reinforced masonry stucco and covered with galvanized iron sheet.

Built Year: 1959

Address: 410 Emerald corner Chacabuco, Arauco.

Arauco Social Club

Story building, with classical influences, high volume characterizing the horizontal longitudinal side of the plaza. Wood structure, base coating and shingles. Cover sheet of galvanized iron.

Built Year: 1939

Address: Chacabuco 339, Arauco

Square Kiosk

General tourist information kiosk, with modern architectural elements and art deco. Of good material and in good condition.

Construction Year: Unknown

Address: Corner of the plaza, Arauco.

Square of Arauco

Traditional design of the square Chilean mid-twentieth century. Edge of ride ring, which are diagonal in the center and cared for native and introduced tree species. They emphasize their size, being the largest in the province, next to Los Alamos.

Construction Year: Unknown

Address: corner Caupolicán Esmeralda, Arauco.

New Church of Arauco

Metal frame and wood siding has a provisional character, with good spatial and interior lighting. The shape of space gives the appearance of a large room low-rise but very wide. Rigid triangulated frame structure, which combines between about herself, and placed conventionally on a symmetry axis crosses.

Built Year: 1970

Address: corner Caupolicán Esmeralda, Arauco.

Remains of Ancient Church of Arauco

The tower of the destroyed church of Arauco, is a milestone for its presence in the urban landscape. For concrete bill and its neoclassical style stucco is a significant monument of the city. Because of the temporary church that has the new metal of Arauco, it is feasible to recycle the remains of this building, consisting of tower and columns, a new cathedral for the city.

Built Year: 1912

Address: 360 corner Caupolicán Esmeralda, Arauco.

Theater Municipal

Theater building with modern architecture on the facade historicist elements referring to the neo-colonial architecture.

Built Year: 1942
Address: Condell 696, Arauco.

Arauco Historical Museum

Arauco The Historical Museum was founded by four teachers on February 2, 1993 which sought to create an institution to preserve the cultural heritage of the town of Arauco. This could not have been a number of actions among which the creation of the Corporación Cultural Historical Museum Arauco in 1995. This some community residents have approached the work of the museum and have resulted in activities primarily for maintenance over time. Fundación 2 de febrero de 1993 Foundation February 2, 1993.

Address: 550 Emerald Arauco
Administration: Private Corporation Arauco Cultural Historical Museum

Arauco, Brief Historical Review

Arauco, belongs to the province of Arauco and its voice in mapudungo means (clayey water) is a term loaded with history. From the time of the Incas was called "Araucanian" the Indians "brave and courageous" to refer mainly to the Mapuche, "people of the earth", who lived between the rivers and Tolten Itata. Founded in 1555 by Pedro de Valdivia in 1590 and moved to its present location at the foot of Cerro Colo Colo.

During the colonial period, Arauco was close contact area between the Spanish and indigenous groups originating peaceful process of miscegenation and integration based on trade.

In the early nineteenth century, around the last location of the fort, there is the establishment of different groups of people forming a village within which events occur that mark its history. One of them, and since establishing independence, is the so-called War on deaths reported among the nascent republican government and remnants of the Royalist army led by Vicente Benavides who, along with a group of guerrillas, had taken over the village making it the operations center of looting in the neighborhood.

Arauco population census of 2002 had 34,873 inhabitants, including 24,269 urban and 10,604 rural.