La Dehesa

La Dehesa is a suburban neighborhood in Lo Barnechea Commune of Santiago, Chile.

Around the year 800 BCE, the area became inhabited along the shores of the Mapocho River, representing the first sedentary population, which resulted from the establishment of farming communities and the lamini's domestication.

The Spanish were still in control of the area in the early 1800s when Bernardo O'Higgins helped to win its independence from that empire in 1810.

[1][2] Several archaeological deposits were detected during construction, with findings linked to the Bato Tradition, evidence that aboriginals previously inhabited the location.

The area was previously called Huayco, an Inca word that meant: "Place of serious inundations.