Nuestra Señora de Halle was a fort in the modern Bío Bío Region of Chile, established in 1603 by Governor Alonso de Ribera.
Ribera named the fort for the city of Halle, in Belgium where he had previously spent many years in the war there.
In 1605, the fort was transformed into the town of Monterrey de la Frontera named for the then viceroy of Peru Gaspar de Zúñiga y Acevedo, Count of Monterrey.
Padre Luis de Valdivia lived in the Jesuit mission house in this town from 1612.
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