Paicavi (fort)

Fort Paicavi or Plaza de Paicavi, a fort at a ford where the main road from Arauco, to the south crossed the Paicavi River established by Alonso de Ribera in 1603. Later destroyed it was rebuilt again in 1665 by Francisco de Meneses Brito.

Sources

Francisco Solano Asta-Buruaga y Cienfuegos, Diccionario geográfico de la República de Chile, D. Appleton y Compania, Nueva York, 1899
- pg. 502 Paicaví. — Rio

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