Cobquecura is a little town (570 km2) of 1.500
inhabitants, located in the south of Chile at the
beginning of the Bío-bío Region (lat. 36º8′ south,
long. 72º49′ west), between the foothills of the
Cordillera de la Costa and the Pacific Ocean, in a
small valley crossed by the river of the same name.
The Bío-bío Region is one of the five regions that
formes the Chilean “Central Valley”, a rich and
fertile valley between the Cordillera de Los Andes
at east and the Cordillera de la Costa at west, along
the Pacific Ocean, characterized for being a great
rural zone, where good climate makes possible the
production of wheat, cattle, fruits and the best
Chilean wine, and where rural earthen architecture
has its maximum expression. This was also the area
where the Spanish conquest of the Chilean territory
was concentrated, and still nowadays it’s possible
to see the Colonialism legacy in the architecture of
hundreds rural towns with great identity.
