Wreckage of San José

Date: March 26, 1651 • Location: Madrid, Spain

The Spanish ship San José ran aground onto coasts controlled by the indigenous Cunco people, who subsequently killed the crew.

The 1651 wreckage of San José and the subsequent killings and looting carried out by indigenous Cuncos was a defining event in Colonial Chile that contributed to Spanish–Cunco tensions that led to the Battle of Río Bueno and the Mapuche uprising of 1655.