Moluche or Nguluche is a dialect of the
Mapuche language
Mapudungun that is also the ethnic description of the Mapuche peoples speaking that language. At the beginning of the
Conquest of Chile by the
Spanish Empire the Moluche lived in what came to be known as
Araucanía. The Moluche were called
Araucanos ("Araucanians") by the Spanish.