Tuesday, October 5, 2010

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460 years of Concepción


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460 years since an October 5, 1550 Don Pedro de Valdivia founded the city with the name of Mary Immaculate Conception of the New End, has changed several times to settle, has suffered the ravages of earthquakes and tsunamis has contested the capital of the kingdom and finally back to his feet. Conception was founded in what is now the city of Penco, hence the adjective of penquista that persists, and then was destroyed by attacks by Mapuche and tsunami. For over a century led the period known as the War Arauco and was seat of the Captaincy General of Chile seat of the Governor and the Royal Court. Yet again suffer the assaults at the hands of Mapuche warriors and pirates, as well as earthquakes almost disappeared after the earthquake of 1751 which requires the transfer to the present site, the valley of Mocha, on the banks of the Bio-Bio. Very weak economic activity in the years of the conquest comes sharper with the rise of wheat and export through the port and Talcahuano and Tomé. It would however be in the twentieth century when, thanks to the momentum of the central state through CORFO would develop the industrial matrix of the City outlined the creation of the Steel Company Pacific. Alongside comes a powerful impetus in the field of culture with the formation of research centers that would give rise to the University of Concepción with Catholic universities and technical legal personality would seal the city in the South that would become known as campus. For various reasons, mostly military, can not be imposed Conception in their struggle with the capital Santiago and so persists with its industrial and cultural push some sort of relegation or prejudice against the latter away from the great circles of power and decision making . However, in the stands as Bicentennial centuries after the ravages of nature to go after the horizons of the third millennium.