Waykuche

The Huaycoches were indigenous inhabitants of the upper Mapocho valley, on the approaches to the Andes east of Santiago. Their lands lay along the river and the mountain valleys beyond it. When Pedro de Valdivia founded Santiago in 1541, Spanish settlement was imposed upon a region already governed by indigenous leaders. The Huaycoches lost lands on the Mapocho as colonial authorities and settlers appropriated the valley.

The later city of Santiago lies here.