Temuco is a pretty boring city. That is to say, it is simply a city. There isn't much to see. However, it apparently is the seat of the growing Mapuche (the largest native group in Chile today) political voice. You can certainly see it in the grafiti and posters on the streets. This is a mural at a Mapuche school.
This is a national forest park that is actually in Temuco. It's called "Cerro Ñeilol." I couldn't tell you what Ñielol means, but it's basically just a cerro, or hill...
...with lots of trees.
I just took this photo to show a written example of the Mapuche language, mapudungun. Technically, as mapudungun is not a written language, there is no correct way to write it. There exist, three dictionaries of the language, but in the end, the spelling of words, and furthermore, what characters are used to write them is up the writer. As I was told, when any Mapuche reads a word in his/her language s/he "always feels that either there are too many characters, or too few."
ok. this isn't me being vain. I'm just trying to show how freaking low the ceilings in Temuco were. I couldn't even said up straight. And doorways?... I've got a couple of knots on my head to show for my time there.
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