EL TERREMOTO Y TSUNAMI DE 1835 EN CONCEPCIÓN Y LA FRONTERA DEL RÍO BIOBÍO: DESTRUCCIÓN, RELOCALIZACIÓN, TRASLADOS Y NUEVAS INVERSIONES

Abstract

The Earthquake of 1835 that affected with more understood the area between Talca and Valdivia as a natural landmark that marks a before and after in the history of one of the cities – and is hinterland – located in the geographical frame: Concepción. Previously affected by the Guerra a Muerte, the province of Concepción remained practically inactive until the end of the war, after which it reactivated its comercial circuits. However, the aforementioned earthquake hindered everything that had been done, which was aggravated by the migration of former penquista families to Santiago and why the suburbs were filed with poor peasant families, increasing the socioeconomic crisis. Against all odds, it was possible to reactivate and modernize old economic sectors, which leads us to understand this telluric phenomenon not only as a synonym for disaster, such as the activity of the wheat mill. In this article, we have focused our attention on the coastal area of the Penquista province, known by the Mapuche communities as Lafkenmapu, and occupied as a fundamental source the offices contained in the Ministerio del Interior in the Archivo Nacional Histórico in Santiago de Chile.