Entierro

[1] Some people believe that a nocturnal bird called Alicanto can show to treasure hunters the location of entierros.

[3] In the far north of Chile a tale says that because Francis Drake feared falling prisoner to the Spanish he buried his treasure near Arica.

[4] In Carelmapu an entierro is said to have been left by the Spanish in an effort to hide valuables from Dutch invaders that sacked the settlement in 1643.

[5] During the Suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1767 folklore says Jesuits of buried their valuables near their confiscated estate in Ocoa.

Reportedly in the aftermath of the patriot defeat at the Battle of Rancagua (1814) some patrician families gathered their valuables in an ox cart to have them evacuated to Mendoza across the Andes.