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Vicente Pérez Rosales

Valdivia, Chile

Vicente Pérez Rosales

Vicente Pérez Rosales (Spanish pronunciation: [biˈsente ˈpeɾes roˈsales]; 5 April 1807 – 6 September 1886) was a politician, traveller, merchant, miner and Chilean diplomat. He is best known for his writings including his memoir Memorias del Pasado and for contributing to organize the colonisation b

y Germans and Chileans of the Llanquihue area. Vicente Pérez Rosales National Park is named after him. In the 1846 he went to work in the mines near Copiapó in northern Chile, and then in 1848 Pérez Rosales was one of thousands of Chileans who participated in the California gold rush. He wrote extensively about it contrasting aspects of the North American society with the Chilean one. The Californian writings of Pérez Rosales were published in various forms having a lasting impact in discourses about Chilean identity.

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