Cuel

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Not to be confused with Koel.
A cuel in the valley of Purén amidst an Eucalyptus plantation (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.).

The cuel are Mapuche-built tumulus. The best known cuels are near the localities of Purén and Lumaco in Araucanía, south-central Chile. The first significant studies of the cuel were published by Tom Dillehay and José Saavedra in 2003 and 2007.[1][2] The word cuel is a neologism formed from the mapudungun word kuel, meaning boundary marker (Spanish: lindero) according to the 18th century dictionary of Andrés Febrés.[3]

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