Andalicán during the era of conquest and colonial times in Chile was the name of the high hill in the middle of two ravines and site of a fortress built by the Mapuche in 1557 to prevent García Hurtado de Mendoza from invading La Araucanía north of Marihueñu and the valley of . This height overlooks the location of the modern city of Lota in Concepción Province of the Bío Bío Region of Chile. Andalicán is also the name given to the region along the banks of the Laraquete River. This was the location of the rehue of Andalicán a part of the Moluche aillarehue of Arauco.