a port in S Chile, on the Valdivia River about 19 km (12 miles) from the Pacific: developed chiefly by German settlers in the 1850s; university (1954). Pop: 136 000 (2005 est)
Valdivia in British English2
(Spanish balˈdiβja)
noun
Pedro de (ˈpeðro de). ?1500–54, Spanish soldier; conqueror of Chile