Cuevas de los Patriotas

Middle Chile


Up a short footpath from Baron de Rodt and illuminated at night, these damp caverns sheltered Juan Egaña, Manuel de Salas and 300 other patriots exiled for several years during Chile's independence movement after their defeat in the Battle of Rancagua in 1814.


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Commemorating the battle between the British naval vessels Glasgow, Kent and Orama, and the German cruiser Dresden.

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