What the records say
- When
- 12 Mar 1550
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 36.74° S, 73.00° W
- Description
- 1550 battle
Placed at the town its title names, Penco.
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Arauco War: Battle of Penco – Several hundred Spanish and indigenous troops under the command of Pedro de Valdivia defeat an army of 60,000 Mapuche in…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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