Mawlen

The Maule River crosses central Chile from the Andes to the Pacific, passing through a broad valley between the mountain and coastal ranges. Indigenous communities lived along its course before the Spanish conquest. The river and its tributaries watered fields in a region where vineyards, wheat growing and livestock later became important. Spanish towns founded in the eighteenth century, including Talca and Cauquenes, became centres for the surrounding rural districts.

The later city of Talca lies here.