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Mapuche-built tumulus
A cuel in the valley of Purén amidst an Eucalyptus plantation (38°4′34.80″S 72°53′13″W / 38.0763333°S 72.88694°W / -38.0763333; -72.88694).
Not to be confused with Koel.

The cuel are Mapuche-built tumulus. The best known cuels are near the localities of Purén and Lumaco in Araucanía, south-central Chile. The first significant studies of the cuel were published by Tom Dillehay and José Saavedra in 2003 and 2007. The word cuel is a neologism formed from the mapudungun word kuel, meaning boundary marker (Spanish: lindero) according to the 18th century dictionary of Andrés Febrés.

References

  1. Dillehay, Tom. (2007). Monuments, empires and resistance. Cambridge University Press. 504 p.
  2. Dillehay, Tom D.; Saavedra Z., José (2003). "Interacción Humana y Ambiente: el desarrollo de Kuel en Puren-Lumanco (Region de la Araucania)" (PDF). Revista Austral de Ciencias Sociales (in Spanish) (7). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-07-17. Retrieved 2020-08-13.
  3. Febrés, Andrés (1765). Arte de la lengua general del Reyno de Chile (in Spanish). Lima. p. 463.
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