Américo Gurdon came from Hungary hoping to get lucky with Father Le Page's team who were behind the ruins of San Pedro de Atacama, but he had no luck and had to look for work. Which would reach a sawmill in Lautaro, and in turn in a dense jungle of forests in what we know as the Cordillera de la Raices.
It would not be until 1882, when we already know the story that Gregorio Urrutia Venegas would be the founder of these noble lands, although with the 1904 treaty, he would have determined the demilitarization of Peru by the Chilean troops who would need to find another place ... and thus they chose nothing less than a territory occupied by Pehuenches.
The government would negotiate with the caciques who possessed these lush lands and it is Cacique Mariluan himself who would take the icing on the cake, in 1880 to 1890 the campaign for the occupation of Patagonia would have been an excuse for Chile to lose some of the national territory in middle of Patagonia.
In any case, the well-known Department of Mariluán reached the Cordillera de las Raices when the famous Roots Tunnel was set up for walkers who cross Mariluán with Neuquén, which consisted of groups of rucas in the Malalcahuello sector, considering that the winter, autumn and spring snowfalls that reached up to three meters thick in the Roots.
Source: Histories and Legends of the Mariluán Territory, written by Raúl Ludovic Doussoulin Worner, summarized and adapted by Andre Doussoulin.
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