Chile · 16th century
Fort Tucapel ranks #7,969 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #7 of the 16 mapped in Chile. Founded 1553, it is older than 36% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 887 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. See how Chile compares in the castle statistics.
Fort Tucapel, San Diego de Tucapel or San Ambrosio de Tucapel was a fort located in the present-day commune of Cañete, in Chile.
Founded by Pedro de Valdivia in the spring of 1553 and destroyed by Lautaro's forces in December of the same year, in the so-called Battle of Tucapel. It was rebuilt by García Hurtado de Mendoza at the end of December 1557. Equipped with two pieces of artillery, it served as a refuge for the first inhabitants of the city of Cañete de la Frontera, founded in the year 1558.
Since 1963 it has been listed as a National Monument of Chile, in the category of Historical Monument.
Machine-translated from “Fuerte Tucapel” on the Spanish Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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