Carelmapu

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|leader_title = Alcade

|leader_name = Jorge Westermeier Estrada

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| url = http://www.ine.cl/canales/chile_estadistico/demografia_y_vitales/demografia/demografia.php

| title = Chile: Ciudades, pueblos, aldeas y caseríos

| publisher = Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas

| date = June 2005

| access-date = January 10, 2014 }}

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|timezone = Chilean Standard

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Carelmapu (lit. from Mapudungun "Green Land") is a port and town ({{langx|es|pueblo}}) at the western end of Chacao Channel, southern Chile. Carelmapu was established by the Spanish in 1602 as San Antonio Ribera de Carelmapu following the Destruction of Seven Cities. In 1643 Carelmapu was sacked and its church vandalized by the Dutch corsair Hendrick Brouwer.{{cite book |last=Lane |first=Kris E. |title=Pillageing the Empire: Piracy in the Americas 1500–1750 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bRgFqADzOLkC&q=Brouwer |year=1998 |isbn= 9780765630834|page=89 |publisher=M.E. Sharpe }}{{cite book |last=de Rosales |first=Diego|author-link=Diego de Rosales|title=Historia general de el reyno de Chile. Flandes indiano|volume=III|url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/archivos2/pdfs/MC0005273.pdf |year=1878|editor-last=Vicuña Mackenna |editor-first=Benjamín |editor-link=Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna |publisher=Imprenta de El Mercurio |location=Valparaíso |language=es |pages=219–220}} On March 6, 1676 Carelmapu received the exhausted survivors of Pascual de Iriarte's expedition to the Strait of Magellan.{{Cite book|title=Anuario Hidrográfico de la Marina de Chile|year=1886|location=Valparaíso|page=587|chapter=Expedición de Antonio de Vea|author-last=de Vea|author-first=Antonio|author-link1=Antonio de Vea|chapter-url=http://www.bibliotecanacionaldigital.gob.cl/visor/BND:74532|language=es}}