Mapocho River

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• The floods section was substantially expanded from a single recent 2016 mention to a multi-century historical chronology.
• Several specific historic flood events and their impacts (1544, 1574, 1581, 1597, 1609) were newly added and change the article's historical scope.

Add: Overflows have been recorded since the Spanish settlement The earliest in 1544 came when winter rains flooded both the Mapocho and the Maipo. Add: Rain and snow between July 20 and 22 1574 produced floods that destroyed the bridge to the south killed Indigenous people and swept away houses and walls in colonial Santiago. Add: Further floods followed in 1581 and 1597 the latter killing a considerable number of people. Add: in the spring of 1609 in the great Pentecost flood which brought a plague of mice and many deaths and led to the first embankments on the river

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