Araucania Definition

Araucania Sentence Examples

• The Moreton Bay pine (Araucania Cunninghamii) is reckoned amongst the giants of the forest.

• In 1861 Antoine de Tounens (1820-1878), a French adventurer in Chile, proclaimed himself king of Araucania under the title of Orelie Antoine I., and tried to obtain subscriptions from France to support his enterprise.

• The province originally covered the once independent Indian territory of Araucania, but this was afterwards divided into four provinces.

• One of the most striking forest trees is the pehuen or Chilean pine (Araucania imbricata), which often grows to a height of too ft.

• The semi-independent Araucanians, whose territory is slowly being occupied by the whites, are concentrated in the eastern forests of Bio-Bio, Malleco and Cautin, all that remains to them of the Araucania which they so bravely and successfully defended for more than three centuries.