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La Araucana
La Araucana (also known in English as The Araucaniad) is a 16th-century epic poem in Spanish about the Spanish Conquest of Chile by Alonso de Ercilla. It was considered the national epic of the Captaincy General of Chile and one of the most important works of the Spanish Golden Age ("Siglo de Oro").
The poem.
The poem Structure.
"La Araucana" consists of 37 cantos that are distributed across the poem's three parts. The first part was published in 1569
1873, after several further redescriptions, Koch published the combination "Araucaria araucana", validating Molina's species name. The name "araucana" is derived from the native Araucanians who used the nuts (seeds) of the tree in Chile. A group of Araucanians living in the Andes, the Pehuenches, owe their name to their diet based on harvesting of the "A. araucaria" seeds. "Pehuen" means "Araucaria" and "che" means people in Mapudungun.
The origin of the popular English language name