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	Banco Central De Chile 1000 Peso Note, 2007 Issue Obverse: Ignacio Carrera Pinto at right, military arms at center Reverse: Monument to Chilean heros. Watermark: Ignacio Carrera Pinto Ignacio Carrera Pinto (February 5, 1848 – July 9, 1882) is a Chilean hero of the War of the Pacific. He was born in Santiago, Chile; the son of José Miguel Carrera Fontecilla, of Basque descent, and of Emilia Pinto Benavente. He was the grandson of Jose Miguel Carrera Verdugo, one of Chile's independence heroes. He was also the great-grandson and great-nephew of Chile's Presidents Francisco Antonio Pinto and Anibal Pinto. When the War of the Pacific, between Chile, on one side, and Peru and Bolivia on the other, started in 1879, Carrera Pinto enrolled in the "Esmeralda" battalion. During the next years, and as a consequence of his personal merits, he was promoted rapidly. In 1881, he became lieutenant and, in 1882, captain. He participated in the Lima Campaign and in the Sierra Campaign, during which he was killed in the Battle of La Concepción. Ignacio Carrera Pinto and his 77 men are regarded in Chile as great heroes, and are commonly referred to as "los Héroes de la Concepción'. On July, 1882, Carrera was the head of the Chilean Army's Fourth Company of Chacabuco, formed by 77 men, which was guarding the Peruvian town called La Concepción. Other officials in charge were Julio Montt, Luis Cruz and Arturo Perez Canto. On July 10, 1882, La Concepción was attacked by 400 regular Peruvian soldiers and large groups of natives, which were part of the forces of Andres Caceres, a Peruvian officer which was conducting a guerrilla war. Despite being greatly outnumbered and out of ammunition, the Chilean soldiers did not surrender. The last Chilean soldiers died charging the well armed Peruvian army only with their bayonets.
	Banco Central De Chile 5000 Peso Note, 2008 Issue Obverse: Statue of woman with children at left center, Gabriela Mistral at right. Reverse: Allegorial woman with musical intrument, seated male at center. Gabriela Mistral (April 7, 1889 — January 10, 1957) was the pseudonym of Lucila de María del Perpetuo Socorro Godoy Alcayaga, a Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945. Some central themes in her poems are nature, betrayal, love, a mother's love, sorrow and recovery, travel, and Latin American identity as formed from a mixture of Native American and European influences.
	Banco Central De Chile 10000 Peso Note, 2008 Issue Obverse: Captain Aruto Prat at right. Reverse: Statue of Liberty at left, Hacienda San Augstin de Punual Cuna at left center. Agustín Arturo Prat Chacón (April 3, 1848, near Ninhue, Chile - May 21, 1879, Iquique, Peru [now Chile]) was a Chilean navy officer. He was killed shortly after boarding the Peruvian armored monitor Huáscar at the Naval Battle of Iquique after the ship under his command, the Esmeralda, was rammed by the Peruvian monitor. Prat, as captain of the Esmeralda, was the first to board the Huáscar. Before his death, Prat had taken part in several major naval engagements, including battles at Papudo (a coastal city north of Valparaiso) (1865), and at the Battle of Abtao (1866), at the islet of Abtao across from Chiloé Island. Following his death, his name became a rallying cry for Chilean forces, and Arturo Prat has since been considered a national hero. Hacienda San Augstin de Punual Cuna is the birth place for Captain Aruto Prat