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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 559 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CAUTIN , a See also:

province of See also:

SOUTHERN

southern See also:

CHILE, or CHILI (derived, it is said, from the Quichua chin , cold, or tchili, snow)

Chile, bounded N. by See also:

ARAUCO

Arauco, See also:

MALLECO

Malleco and Bio-Bio, E. by See also:

ARGENTINA

Argentina, S. by See also:

VALDIVIA

Valdivia, and W. by the Pacific. Its See also:

AREA

area is officially estimated at 5832 sq. m. Cautin lies within the temperate agricultural and See also:

FOREST

forest region of the See also:

south, and produces See also:

wheat, See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, See also:

LUMBER

lumber, tan-bark and See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit. The See also:

state central railway from See also:

SANTIAGO, or SANTIAGO DE CHILE

Santiago to Puerto See also:

MONTT, MANUEL (1809-1880)

Montt crosses the province from See also:

north to south, and the Cautin, or Imperial, and Tolten See also:

rivers (the latter forming its southern boundary) See also:

CROSS

cross from See also:

east to See also:

west, both affording excellent transportation facilities. The province once formed See also:

PART

part of the territory occupied by the Araucanian See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians, and its See also:

PRESENT

present See also:

POLITICAL

political existence See also:

DATES

dates from 1887. Its See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population (1905) was 96,139, of whom a large percentage were See also:

EUROPEAN

European immigrants, principally Germans. The See also:

capital is Temuco, on the Rio Cautin; pop. (1895) 7078. The See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal towns besides Temuco are Lautaro (3139) and Nueva Imperial (2179), both of historic See also:

INTEREST

interest because they were fortified See also:

SPANISH

Spanish outposts in the See also:

long struggle with the See also:

ARAUCANIANS (or AucA)

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