Mapuche ülkantun

Summary

Mapuche ülkantun is a field of Mapuche singing and oral expression rather than one commercial genre. Ül can carry memory, feeling, relationship, teaching and locally meaningful experience through Mapudungun and performance. Secular and ceremonial practices need to be distinguished, and a public song does not grant access to every ritual context. The catalogue label is a discovery doorway into a diverse living culture, not a claim that all Mapuche musicians make one sound or that every song has the same social authority.

Contemporary and trending

Singing continues through families, community events, language work, teaching, public performance and contemporary artistic projects. Some artists foreground unaccompanied voice; others work with instruments or modern production. Urban Mapuche communities are part of this life, not automatically detached from culture by residence. Contemporary transmission can involve deliberate recovery after disruption as well as continuous family learning. An atlas should recognize those creative efforts without treating every public adaptation as a complete representation of ceremonial knowledge or every older recording as a universal model.

History

Mapuche oral traditions developed through community relationships to land, history and the ethical use of words, while colonial expansion, state violence, migration and language pressure changed the conditions of transmission. Cross-border Mapuche life in Chile and Argentina makes a strictly national account inadequate. Scholars and public artists have documented particular songs and bearers, but their work is situated rather than exhaustive. Elisa Loncon's discussion places ül within oral knowledge and the responsibilities of speech, a perspective that broadens music beyond a collection of melodies.

Musical characteristics

Listen to the voice's contour, repetition, breath and relation to words rather than assume that an unfamiliar phrase is musically simple. A performance may organize time flexibly or use a recurring framework suited to its purpose. Accompaniment, when present, should be understood in its local context rather than used as the sole genre test. Language carries meanings that a timbral description cannot replace. A respectful listener can appreciate sound while recognizing the limits of understanding without community explanation and the difference between public artistry and restricted knowledge.

Geography and communities

The map uses broad southern Chilean and neighboring Argentine Mapuche cultural landscapes, plus lighter Santiago and Buenos Aires urban transmission fields. It includes countryside and communities between documented performers' homes rather than a few celebrity pins. These are not legal or ethnic territorial boundaries, nor locations of private ceremonies. They indicate a broad public musical orientation. The fields remain editable because Mapuche cultural life is internally diverse and mobile; a smooth surface is only a guide to relationships that people and language explain more fully.

Artists

Beatriz Pichi Malen and Aimé Paine offer public listening routes, while named bearers such as Carmela Colipe and Juana Lepilaf appear in documented song discussions. Contemporary artists may work across other genres without their entire catalogues becoming ülkantun. Community singers and teachers remain central even when they have no international recording career. The INDAP interview gives a first-person artistic perspective, while Loncon's account emphasizes oral knowledge and named local voices. Neither should be mistaken for permission to reproduce every sacred practice.

Representative performances

These recordings offer listening examples of the genre. Notes identify the performance setting and any adaptation or mixed repertoire.

MuGlobe listening profile

Repertoire	Field use	Notes
traditional	regional	Comprehensive catalogue; recent discovery is prioritized and worthwhile older music remains playable. Preserve specific recording contexts and dates.

MuGlobe representative performances

Artist	Performance / song / title	Embedded player URL	Notes	Repertoire kind	Repertoire date	Recording date	Format	Opening	Places	Fit	Evidence	Review note
Beatriz Pichi Malen with Ruiz Guiñazú and Lucho Cruz	Músicas Originarias — Biblioteca Nacional, 2022	https://www.youtube.com/embed/eFxZNJ8eMDY	The Argentine National Library’s concert presents Pichi Malen’s Mapuche-language singing with her credited accompanists. This public artistic programme provides an entry into Mapuche song; it should not be treated as an unmediated recording of every community’s ceremonial practice.	traditional	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	pending	Existing recording	Legacy unscoped accepted recording retained; migration does not assert new dates or per-country variants. Existing musical notes and native citations are preserved.
Joel Maripil	Mari Mari — Akun Awkin	https://www.youtube.com/embed/KhQjEi1co0U	Maripil’s own publication presents his Mapudungun song from Akun Awkin, adding a Lafkenche singer’s contemporary recorded presentation of ülkantun to the concert programme. Embedded playback is currently unavailable (YouTube code 150); the recording reference is retained.	traditional	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	pending	Existing recording	Playback blocked: YouTube embedding error 150 observed 20 October 2026. Legacy unscoped accepted recording retained; migration does not assert new dates or per-country variants. Existing musical notes and native citations are preserved.
Unidentified Mapuche ülkantun singer	Canto mapuche ülkantun	https://www.youtube.com/embed/MOd8MpIKWZI	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Elimapuzungun Para El Alma. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific community-published ülkantun musical performance; do not assume the language-channel uploader is the singer, original date unknown. Video publication: 2026-06-20; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Elimapuzungun Para El Alma. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific community-published ülkantun musical performance; do not assume the language-channel uploader is the singer, original date unknown.
Lorenzo Aillapán	EPVÑPVLE PVWVÑ / Nos Saludamos, Lorenzo Aillapán.	https://www.youtube.com/embed/tWCuqKg4m5w	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Delestero Realizadora. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual Nos Saludamos singing recording produced for Museo Mapuche de Cañete’s Mapudungun karaoke programme. Complete musical language-transmission performance, not discarded because made for learning. Video publication: 2026-06-11; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	music-video	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Delestero Realizadora. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual Nos Saludamos singing recording produced for Museo Mapuche de Cañete’s Mapudungun karaoke programme. Complete musical language-transmission performance, not discarded because made for learning.
Joel Maripil	Joel Maripil - Kudi ülkantun	https://www.youtube.com/embed/5EVDJH7zALc	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Magdalena Camejo. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2020. Named actual voice/ensemble and specific public musical work reviewed. New publication and reissue dates do not establish a new recording session; generic identity/venue alone does not classify neighboring musical forms. Video publication: 2025-05-05; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	2020	live	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Magdalena Camejo. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2020. Named actual voice/ensemble and specific public musical work reviewed. New publication and reissue dates do not establish a new recording session; generic identity/venue alone does not classify neighboring musical forms.
Beatriz Pichi Malen	Beatriz Pichi Malen 🌿 Antu tayul / Canto sagrado del sol	https://www.youtube.com/embed/j6Q-tNAdIWU	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: DAVIDEOZO. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific public Mapuche songs/tayül/lullaby by named singer. Photograph/TV-video credits do not identify additional voices or date the original audio; no full overlapping Plata album imported. Video publication: 2023-05-14; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Argentina	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: DAVIDEOZO. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific public Mapuche songs/tayül/lullaby by named singer. Photograph/TV-video credits do not identify additional voices or date the original audio; no full overlapping Plata album imported.
Beatriz Pichi Malen	Beatriz Pichi Malen 🌿 We kuyen / Luna nueva	https://www.youtube.com/embed/XC-iIZOEuG4	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: DAVIDEOZO. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific public Mapuche songs/tayül/lullaby by named singer. Photograph/TV-video credits do not identify additional voices or date the original audio; no full overlapping Plata album imported. Video publication: 2023-05-11; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Argentina	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: DAVIDEOZO. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific public Mapuche songs/tayül/lullaby by named singer. Photograph/TV-video credits do not identify additional voices or date the original audio; no full overlapping Plata album imported.
Beatriz Pichi Malen	Beatriz Pichi Malen 🌿 Canción para dormir a un niño	https://www.youtube.com/embed/WT6AJFVjk_w	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: DAVIDEOZO. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific public Mapuche songs/tayül/lullaby by named singer. Photograph/TV-video credits do not identify additional voices or date the original audio; no full overlapping Plata album imported. Video publication: 2023-04-20; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Argentina	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: DAVIDEOZO. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific public Mapuche songs/tayül/lullaby by named singer. Photograph/TV-video credits do not identify additional voices or date the original audio; no full overlapping Plata album imported.
Carmen Curical Ñanco; Manuel Huichao; Rodrigo Paillalid	Carmen Curical Ñanco feat. Manuel Huichao - Pewenmu amuy Celinda	https://www.youtube.com/embed/H7FAWDGTCUU	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Carmen Curical Ñanco. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Primary contemporary public composition Pewenmu Amuy Celinda names voice/kultrung, guitar/keyboards/voice and bass. Arranger/engineer is credited as a musician only where actual performance roles are supplied. Video publication: 2022-09-01; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	music-video	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Carmen Curical Ñanco. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Primary contemporary public composition Pewenmu Amuy Celinda names voice/kultrung, guitar/keyboards/voice and bass. Arranger/engineer is credited as a musician only where actual performance roles are supplied.
Uncredited male Mapuche ülkantun singer	wentru ñi ulkantun	https://www.youtube.com/embed/M6kIBrM9N3g	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Angelica trekanao. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Named actual voice/ensemble and specific public musical work reviewed. New publication and reissue dates do not establish a new recording session; generic identity/venue alone does not classify neighboring musical forms. Video publication: 2022-07-20; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Angelica trekanao. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Named actual voice/ensemble and specific public musical work reviewed. New publication and reissue dates do not establish a new recording session; generic identity/venue alone does not classify neighboring musical forms.
Armando Nahuelpán	Millaray - Armando Nahuelpán.	https://www.youtube.com/embed/3Sg7fWMPhhk	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Salvador Pradenas. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual Millaray singing recording; Kutral Mapu is credited as arranger, not automatically another singer. Video publication: 2021-12-07; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Salvador Pradenas. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual Millaray singing recording; Kutral Mapu is credited as arranger, not automatically another singer.
Machi Elba Huenchunao	Machi Elba Huenchunao ülkantulefulu Radio Bahá'í mew	https://www.youtube.com/embed/KTGjL2Go2gk	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Korke Andrés. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions. Video publication: 2021-10-02; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Korke Andrés. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions.
Mapuche ülkantun singer, Claudia Painemal archive	Ul,katun: cantó mapuches para deleitarse el piwke 💙💚💙💚💙💛💛	https://www.youtube.com/embed/kKuoaH8XpeI	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Claudia painemal painemal. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions. Video publication: 2021-09-28; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Claudia painemal painemal. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions.
Weche Mapu	Chalin ñi ul\ canción de saludo	https://www.youtube.com/embed/Nxc1DBjq-QE	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Mapunche Srakisuam. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Source explicitly identifies the adapted audio excerpt from Mari Mari Kümelekaymi by Weche Mapu; the language-exercise publisher is not substituted for actual musicians. Video publication: 2021-09-17; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Mapunche Srakisuam. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Source explicitly identifies the adapted audio excerpt from Mari Mari Kümelekaymi by Weche Mapu; the language-exercise publisher is not substituted for actual musicians.
JUNJI Araucanía children and participating community singers	Ulkantun Pichikeche - Canto Mapuche de los niños y niñas	https://www.youtube.com/embed/ixq8OJR2wt0	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: JUNJI Araucanía. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Primary public Ulkantun Pichikeche children’s song project; institution not asserted as individual voice, musical educational transmission retained. Video publication: 2021-06-18; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: JUNJI Araucanía. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Primary public Ulkantun Pichikeche children’s song project; institution not asserted as individual voice, musical educational transmission retained.
Mapuche ülkantun performer, Lucy Catricheo Rivero archive	ULKANTUN MAPUCHE (CANTO MAPUCHE)	https://www.youtube.com/embed/cUwOJWckhLQ	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Lucy Catricheo Rivero. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual named public ülkantun archive; publisher not uncritically asserted as the uncredited voice. Video publication: 2021-03-17; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Lucy Catricheo Rivero. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual named public ülkantun archive; publisher not uncritically asserted as the uncredited voice.
Dúo Nolmen	ÜL MAPUCHE - SHELINDA	https://www.youtube.com/embed/cQkd1VVoGro	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Lelilen.. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Workshop video explicitly identifies audio from Nolmen’s Püramtun Ül album and a Mapuche Tayültun text; Shelinda/workshop participants are not invented as the original recorded voices. Video publication: 2021-01-14; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Lelilen.. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Workshop video explicitly identifies audio from Nolmen’s Püramtun Ül album and a Mapuche Tayültun text; Shelinda/workshop participants are not invented as the original recorded voices.
Ingrid Nahuelcura	Ingrid Nahuelcura - Pewenche	https://www.youtube.com/embed/FB-vQXNS-js	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Unidad Cultura Lonquimay. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Municipal cultural-primary public Pewenche singing performance; labelled contemporary Mapuche composition, not a claim that every song by this singer belongs to ülkantun. Video publication: 2021-01-05; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Unidad Cultura Lonquimay. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Municipal cultural-primary public Pewenche singing performance; labelled contemporary Mapuche composition, not a claim that every song by this singer belongs to ülkantun.
Hernán Lincheo Millamán	Ül Kantún, Canto Y Kultrung/Del álbum Mapuche (1998)	https://www.youtube.com/embed/-Pke2QeTKkg	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Alerce La Otra Música. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Alerce’s primary1998 Mapuche album entry explicitly credits this Ül Kantún/Canto y Kultrung track to Hernán Lincheo Millamán; a separate autogenerated uploader credited Nemesio Ñanco is not blindly substituted. Video publication: 2020-10-25; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Alerce La Otra Música. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Alerce’s primary1998 Mapuche album entry explicitly credits this Ül Kantún/Canto y Kultrung track to Hernán Lincheo Millamán; a separate autogenerated uploader credited Nemesio Ñanco is not blindly substituted.
Juana Umán	INM Ej 02 – Canto de Nguillatún, ceremonia mapuche (Zapala, Neuquén)	https://www.youtube.com/embed/lgNVpJwlFk4	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Instituto Nacional de Musicologia Carlos Vega. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 1941-12. Instituto Nacional de Musicología Carlos Vega primary archive identifies the actual singer, her Cayulef/El Salitral community and December1941 Zapala session. The institute and researchers are not the singers. Video publication: 2020-08-10; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	1941-12	audio	unknown	country:Argentina	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Instituto Nacional de Musicologia Carlos Vega. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 1941-12. Instituto Nacional de Musicología Carlos Vega primary archive identifies the actual singer, her Cayulef/El Salitral community and December1941 Zapala session. The institute and researchers are not the singers.
Lorenzo Aillapán	Wünül, Concierto de Pájaros Lorenzo Aillapan	https://www.youtube.com/embed/-7MaBA8MzU8	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Werken TV 2. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Wünül/Concierto de Pájaros, actual Mapuche sung/poetic oral performance; not just a biographical interview or arbitrary nature ambience. Video publication: 2020-06-29; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Werken TV 2. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Wünül/Concierto de Pájaros, actual Mapuche sung/poetic oral performance; not just a biographical interview or arbitrary nature ambience.
Elsa Quinchaleo Avendaño	Ulkantun, Indigenous Mapuche song by: Elsa Quinchaleo Avendaño	https://www.youtube.com/embed/xslTr9d8SRw	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Mapuche in the Netherlands. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2019. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions. Video publication: 2020-06-19; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	2019	live	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Mapuche in the Netherlands. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2019. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions.
Carmen Curical Ñanco	Música Mapuche Mogen Pewenche	https://www.youtube.com/embed/Skvyq8wZQrc	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Carmen Curical Ñanco. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Primary Mogen Pewenche recording about the2015 Quilquén fire; event described in the song is not its recording date. Keep primary master once rather than later autogenerated edition. Video publication: 2019-09-28; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	music-video	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Carmen Curical Ñanco. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Primary Mogen Pewenche recording about the2015 Quilquén fire; event described in the song is not its recording date. Keep primary master once rather than later autogenerated edition.
Carmen Curical Ñanco	Chaliwün	https://www.youtube.com/embed/MYMyeA5i1jI	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Carmen Curical Ñanco - Topic. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Distributor release date: 2019-08-16; reissue dates do not establish the original session. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions. Video publication: 2019-08-28; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Carmen Curical Ñanco - Topic. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Distributor release date: 2019-08-16; reissue dates do not establish the original session. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions.
Carmen Curical Ñanco	Pewenche Wentru	https://www.youtube.com/embed/xq_1rKe2m0A	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Carmen Curical Ñanco - Topic. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Distributor release date: 2019-08-16; reissue dates do not establish the original session. Video publication: 2019-08-23; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	unknown	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Carmen Curical Ñanco - Topic. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Distributor release date: 2019-08-16; reissue dates do not establish the original session.
Augusto José Aillapán Paillafil	Canto Mapuche - Wallmapu	https://www.youtube.com/embed/l0o4ScfP8aY	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Music4all. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Primary description identifies actual Machi voice and percussion; producer Cristian Polloni and Estudios Banana are not invented as singing voices. Video publication: 2019-08-12; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Music4all. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Primary description identifies actual Machi voice and percussion; producer Cristian Polloni and Estudios Banana are not invented as singing voices.
Aflaiai	Música y cantos mapuches- Malowoñon (del conjunto Aflaiai)	https://www.youtube.com/embed/KqWTlSK_6KY	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Gonzalo Vera. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Named actual voice/ensemble and specific public musical work reviewed. New publication and reissue dates do not establish a new recording session; generic identity/venue alone does not classify neighboring musical forms. Video publication: 2018-12-16; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Gonzalo Vera. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Named actual voice/ensemble and specific public musical work reviewed. New publication and reissue dates do not establish a new recording session; generic identity/venue alone does not classify neighboring musical forms.
Clementina Colihuinca Painevil	Ülkantun, Clementina Colihuinca Painevil	https://www.youtube.com/embed/xKI1XrdEPSo	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Diego Alonso. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions. Video publication: 2018-11-27; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Diego Alonso. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions.
Norma María Liempi Colipi	Ülkantun Mapuche de La KIMCHE NORMA MARÍA LIEMPI COLIPI/MapucheKOM PAÑE	https://www.youtube.com/embed/xtxekXmeyuE	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Acción Intercultural. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Kom Pañe from the2018 community oral-song project Mongueleimi Ülkantun, primary NAG MAPU/Acción Intercultural publication; project release does not establish an exact session day. Video publication: 2018-11-07; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Acción Intercultural. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Kom Pañe from the2018 community oral-song project Mongueleimi Ülkantun, primary NAG MAPU/Acción Intercultural publication; project release does not establish an exact session day.
Unidentified Mapuche singer, kuyfi ülkantun1983	kuyfi ülkantun 1983, Música Mapuche	https://www.youtube.com/embed/0j-1TaW9NJY	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Frases en mapuzungun. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 1983. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions. Video publication: 2018-09-30; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	1983	audio	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Frases en mapuzungun. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 1983. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions.
Pablo Nawelken	Chikimi (Auka Lafken) - Pablo Nawelken	https://www.youtube.com/embed/w9UTEHRb0q0	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Katerine Cayupel. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Named actual voice/ensemble and specific public musical work reviewed. New publication and reissue dates do not establish a new recording session; generic identity/venue alone does not classify neighboring musical forms. Video publication: 2018-08-19; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Katerine Cayupel. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Named actual voice/ensemble and specific public musical work reviewed. New publication and reissue dates do not establish a new recording session; generic identity/venue alone does not classify neighboring musical forms.
Joel Maripil	Joel Maripil - 5th International Festival of Indigenous Peoples 2018	https://www.youtube.com/embed/mH7cJBHwVao	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Nach32. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2018. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions. Video publication: 2018-05-10; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	2018	live	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Nach32. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2018. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions.
Francisca Huaiquil	Francisca Huaiquil - Chafkiñ ülkantun - Canción en Mapuzungun	https://www.youtube.com/embed/feDL8tDsksc	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: WAIKIL. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. WAIKIL primary family archive explicitly identifies the grandmother’s Chafkiñ Ülkantun and singer, under the project Trafkintufin chi ülkantun. Video publication: 2017-08-21; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: WAIKIL. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. WAIKIL primary family archive explicitly identifies the grandmother’s Chafkiñ Ülkantun and singer, under the project Trafkintufin chi ülkantun.
Sofía Painiqueo	Canto Mapuche Sofia Paniqueo.	https://www.youtube.com/embed/EqiUN0cQmqE	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Rumi Ullpu. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual public Mapuche singing at a condor-release event in Payleman, Río Negro. Named Chilean Mapuche singer in a cross-border ceremony; Argentine performance setting explicitly documented. Video publication: 2017-04-22; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	live	unknown	country:Chile; country:Argentina	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Rumi Ullpu. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual public Mapuche singing at a condor-release event in Payleman, Río Negro. Named Chilean Mapuche singer in a cross-border ceremony; Argentine performance setting explicitly documented.
Carmen Curical Ñanco	Pichi üñum	https://www.youtube.com/embed/ag7NEF2rRBM	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Carmen Curical Ñanco. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Artist primary explicitly identifies Pichi Üñum as Ülkantun. Video publication: 2017-04-06; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Carmen Curical Ñanco. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Artist primary explicitly identifies Pichi Üñum as Ülkantun.
Renken Kurruwentru	ulkantun winka tregua RENKEN KURRUWENTRU	https://www.youtube.com/embed/Cab1_2dyZvw	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: tralkan kevpv. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific public Winka Tregua Ülkantun at Epu Lafken/Ruka Malon, Los Toldos/Puelmapu, explicitly identified by source. No Chile-only country assumption from Mapuche identity. Video publication: 2016-09-27; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Argentina	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: tralkan kevpv. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific public Winka Tregua Ülkantun at Epu Lafken/Ruka Malon, Los Toldos/Puelmapu, explicitly identified by source. No Chile-only country assumption from Mapuche identity.
Mapuche singing ensemble, archival Canto Mapuche	CANTO MAPUCHE	https://www.youtube.com/embed/0LJNJo7NbjQ	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: alberto gonzalez rodriguez. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual vocal/trutruka/kultrun record. Erwin Patzelt’s1959–65 dates refer to accompanying photographs, not an established recording session or vocal credit. Video publication: 2015-10-21; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: alberto gonzalez rodriguez. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual vocal/trutruka/kultrun record. Erwin Patzelt’s1959–65 dates refer to accompanying photographs, not an established recording session or vocal credit.
Lorenzo Aillapán; Joel Maripil	Lorenzo Aillapán y Joel Maripil en #CumbreEnama2014. Parte 7	https://www.youtube.com/embed/O0BJle__xHc	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: LIMBO Comunicaciones Chile. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2014. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions. Video publication: 2014-12-05; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	2014	live	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: LIMBO Comunicaciones Chile. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2014. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions.
Unidentified Mapuche singer, Wiñotuafiyiñ taiñ kuifike azkimun	Música Mapuche (kuyfi ülkatun, antiguo canto)	https://www.youtube.com/embed/f4hUU0LLKeI	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Frases en mapuzungun. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions. Video publication: 2014-06-06; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Frases en mapuzungun. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions.
Nancy San Martín	Nancy San Martin - Pichiche Ulkantun (letra)	https://www.youtube.com/embed/HtkQFI3pFVY	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Nancy San Martin. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specifically identified Pichiche Ülkantun, Canto a los Niños: named community-song adaptation with Spanish/Mapudungun text. Do not infer all other folk songs in the artist’s catalogue are this form. Video publication: 2014-03-27; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Nancy San Martin. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specifically identified Pichiche Ülkantun, Canto a los Niños: named community-song adaptation with Spanish/Mapudungun text. Do not infer all other folk songs in the artist’s catalogue are this form.
Aimé Painé	Aime Paine - Kürüf Tayül (Canto Sagrado del Viento)	https://www.youtube.com/embed/XRF8KvpgaXM	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Marcos López Hualamán. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 1983. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions. Video publication: 2013-12-12; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	1983	audio	unknown	country:Argentina	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Marcos López Hualamán. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 1983. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions.
Cornelio Painemilla	Üllkantufe Cornelio Painemilla	https://www.youtube.com/embed/8LJEDag0x0c	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Kalfumalen. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2009. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions. Video publication: 2012-08-29; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	2009	audio	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: Kalfumalen. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Documented performance/session: 2009. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions.
Aimé Painé	Aimé Painé - Llanka tayül (Cancion de la piedra preciosa)	https://www.youtube.com/embed/KDZjBDa-vNQ	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: loboesteparioenamora. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions. Video publication: 2012-08-24; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Argentina	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: loboesteparioenamora. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions.
Aimé Painé	Aimé Painé - Gurü tayül (Cancion sagrada del zorro)	https://www.youtube.com/embed/BCqg9ntDezs	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: loboesteparioenamora. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions. Video publication: 2012-08-24; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Argentina	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: loboesteparioenamora. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions.
Aimé Painé	Aimé Painé - Perrimontun tayül (Cancion sagrada de la vision divina)	https://www.youtube.com/embed/RwrgaBKDj8Y	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: loboesteparioenamora. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions. Video publication: 2012-08-24; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Argentina	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: loboesteparioenamora. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions.
Beatriz Pichi Malen	Beatriz Pichi Malen- Poyenekayan(Seguiré amando).wmv	https://www.youtube.com/embed/MsDD68ACl28	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: loboesteparioenamora. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific public Mapuche songs/tayül/lullaby by named singer. Photograph/TV-video credits do not identify additional voices or date the original audio; no full overlapping Plata album imported. Video publication: 2010-12-26; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Argentina	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: loboesteparioenamora. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific public Mapuche songs/tayül/lullaby by named singer. Photograph/TV-video credits do not identify additional voices or date the original audio; no full overlapping Plata album imported.
Ignacio Leviman Paillaqueo	Canto Mapuche saludo a la cuñada cantado por Ignacio Leviman Paillaqueo.	https://www.youtube.com/embed/WLhIkIjvZeE	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: pedro ignacio painequeo leviman. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions. Video publication: 2010-07-11; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Chile	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: pedro ignacio painequeo leviman. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Actual performer and specific sung repertoire reviewed. Composers, original cover artists, actors and publishers are not substituted as singers; release/upload dates do not establish original sessions.
Beatriz Pichi Malen	Beatriz Pichi Malen - Rapinilke Mapu	https://www.youtube.com/embed/PTaGoxwenrA	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: newentu. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific public Mapuche songs/tayül/lullaby by named singer. Photograph/TV-video credits do not identify additional voices or date the original audio; no full overlapping Plata album imported. Video publication: 2007-07-27; original-release and performance dates are separate. Advancing embedded playback checked 20 October 2026.	traditional	unknown	unknown	audio	unknown	country:Argentina	supported	Recording/context source	Reviewed Mapuche ülkantun musical recording. Source: newentu. Video publication is separate from unknown original/session dates. Specific public Mapuche songs/tayül/lullaby by named singer. Photograph/TV-video credits do not identify additional voices or date the original audio; no full overlapping Plata album imported.

Related genres

Other Mapuche musical and ceremonial practices belong to the wider cultural world but require their own names and contexts. Nueva canción has engaged Indigenous resources, and Mapuche artists also work in rock, rap and other contemporary forms. Those are creative relationships, not proof that one genre exhausts an Indigenous identity. Keeping the distinction between a people, a language, a song practice and an artist's chosen style prevents the atlas from turning cultural identity into an inflexible musical stereotype.

References and further reading

• Instrumentos musicales de esa etnia — Memoria Chilena

Hotspot mushrooms

Ülkantun is a diverse cross-border community-song landscape, not an ethnic census or a private ceremonial-site map. Broad southern Chile/Argentina fields and lighter urban transmission respect both continuity and migration.

These fields are editorial illustrations of musical affinity and cultural reach, not listener statistics. Radius marks the zero edge of the fade; overlapping fields of this genre combine by maximum.

MuGlobe hotspot mushrooms

ID	Location	Latitude	Longitude	Radius (km)	Strength	Notes
mapuche-ulkantun-southern-chile	Southern Chilean Mapuche public-song landscape	-38.7	-72.4	1000	1	Connects rural communities and towns with local variation.
mapuche-ulkantun-argentine-mapuche	Argentine Mapuche song and community landscape	-40	-70	1100	0.85	Related cross-border public cultural/transmission networks.
mapuche-ulkantun-santiago-urban	Santiago Mapuche urban song transmission	-33.5	-70.7	350	0.45	Meaningful urban community and language/artistic circuit.
mapuche-ulkantun-buenos-aires-urban	Buenos Aires-region Mapuche public-song circuit	-34.6	-58.5	320	0.3	Lighter detached migrant and cultural-performance landscape.