Lafkenmapu

Lafkenmapu is the land of the sea, the coastal country of the Mapuche people between the Pacific and the coastal range. Its inhabitants, the Lafkenche, drew on the resources of shore and sea as well as the lands behind them. Lafkenmapu was one of the broad territorial divisions known as butalmapus, through which communities organised alliances in times of war. Its western position also had significance in Mapuche understandings of the world.