Capitán Pastene
Capitán Pastene | |
|---|---|
Town | |
 Italian immigrants to Capitán Pastene in southern Chile | |
  Capitán Pastene Location in Chile | |
| Coordinates: 39°16′36″S 71°58′28″W / 39.27667°S 71.97444°W | |
| Country |  Chile |
| Region | Araucanía |
| Province | Malleco |
| Municipality | Lumaco |
| Foundation | 10 March 1904 |
| Population [citation needed] | |
| • Urban | 2,600 |
| Time zone | CLT |
Capitán Pastene is a town founded by Italian immigrants, located in the commune of Lumaco in the Araucanía Region of Chile.
History[]
Capitán Pastene was initially founded with the name Nueva Italia in 1906. The vfirst settlers were Italians brought by Giorgio Ricci under fraudulent conditions; he had promised land suitable for agriculture, but instead settlers found themselves immersed in a zone of forested hills.[1] In 1907 the settlement changed name to Capitán Pastene.[1] Several houses recall the days of the earliest settlers of the 87 families, with nearly 770 members, who arrived in 1904 and 1905 from Modena in two successive migrations to focus initially on agriculture and forestry work.[2] Soon many Italians moved out to settle in the nearby towns of Traiguén and Temuco or farther away to Santiago or Argentina.[1]
Settlers arrived from the northern Italian region of Emilia Romagna (Bologna and major cities such as Modena) and left a generation of Italo-Chilean that lasts to this day, which has contributed to enriching the local culture.
Capitán Pastene has 2,600 inhabitants many of whom are descendants from that first group from Modena. It is estimated that throughout the region known as "Pastene", people with kinship ties to migrants from Modena number over 16,000. Including the Chileans of Modena descent[3] there are 800,000 Chileans of Italian ancestry, distant or close, including the Italian-Argentines transplanted to Chile.[4]
Currently,[when?] there is a considerable revival of Italian traditions in the region of Capitan Pastene.
Juan Bautista Pastene[]
Juan Bautista Pastene, after whom the town is named, was a Genoese maritime explorer. He was among the first to explore the Pacific in the sixteenth century. He appears as a lieutenant of Pedro de Valdivia and when King Charles V ordered the exploration of southern Chile, this task was entrusted to Pastene.
Twin cities[]
Capitán Pastene has been proposed to be nominated a comune of southern Chile and thus to be a twin city of Pavullo, a small town near Modena. Most of the original settlers were from Pavullo.[citation needed]
See also[]
- Italian Chilean
- Italian people
- Italian diaspora
- Juan Bautista Pastene
- List of towns in Chile
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Cayuqueo, Pedro (2020). Historia secreta mapuche 2 (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile: Catalonia. pp. 251–254. ISBN 978-956-324-783-1.
- ^ Story with detailed information on the "Nuova Italia" colony
- ^ "L'Emigrazione Modenese". Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
- ^ (in Spanish) Italianos en Chile Archived 27 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine La colonización italiana en Chile, fragmentos de una travesía desde el norte de Italia a Valparaíso de Chile.
- Port settlements in Chile
- Communes of Chile
- Populated places established in 1905
- Italian Chilean
- Populated places in Malleco Province
- 1905 establishments in Chile