Araucania (Arauca`nia) , the country of the Araucos, in Chile, S. of Concepcion and N. of Valdivia, the Araucos being an Indian race long resistant but now subject to Chilian authority, and interesting as the only one that has proved itself able to govern itself and hold its own in the presence of the white man.
Population (circa 1900) given as 88,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Ara`tus * Arauca`ria