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Chapters: Linares, Chile, Curicó, Pelluhue, Villa Baviera, Talca, San Javier, Chile, Yerbas Buenas, Cauquenes, Chanco, Chile, Peteroa, Longaví, Retiro, Chile, Colbún, Parral, Chile, Curanipe, Curepto, Villa Alegre, Chile, Constitución, Chile, Huerta Del Maule, Teno, Rari, Chile, Putagán, Chile, La Huerta, Nirivilo, Pencahue, Licantén, Pelarco, San Rafael, Chile, Quinamávida, Chile, San Clemente, Chile, Panimávida, Empedrado, Chile, Sagrada Familia, Chile, Maule, Chile, Romeral, Rauco. Excerpt: 2010 Chile earthquake item item Founded: May 9, 1742, item Original Name: Villa de Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes de José de Manso del Tutuvén item Region: Maule Region item Area - Municipality: 2,126 km² item Population - City (estimated) - Density (municipality): 41,217 Inhabitants 19.4 /km² item Time zone : Santiago Time Zone, UTC - 4 item Telephone Prefix: 73 item Postal code: 3690000 item Gentilic : Cauquenino item Mayor : Mr. Guillermo Badilla (PDC ) (2004-2008): item Map of Cauquenes municipality and comuna in the Maule Region . Cauquenes , a city in Chile , is the capital of Cauquenes Province and is located in the Maule Region. History According to the historical records of Alonso de Ercilla , Cauquenes was originally inhabited by an indigenous community of the Promaucaes , known as the Cauqui by the Inca or cauquenes by the Spanish and that gave their name to Cauquenes River . They lived to the south of the Maule River and north of the Itata River and owned a settlement in the place where the city lies today. The city of Cauquenes was founded on May 9 1742, de "Villa of Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes de José de Manso del Tutuvén", in the land located between the rivers Tutuvén and Cauquenes , that the cacique promaucae Ascensio Galdámez and his wife Micaela de Araya donated to the Spanish...
