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Memoria Pichilemina (Spanish for memoirs of Pichilemu) is a Spanish-language website founded by Diego Grez Cañete on 30 April 2013. The website collects historical documents and articles relating to the Chilean city of Pichilemu, in Cardenal Caro Province.

History
Memoria Pichilemina was founded on 30 April 2013. Grez stated in an interview with newspaper La Voz de la Región that the website was conceived to "bring people information and analysis of history, with their respective sources, something meant to be direct and reachable by most of the [local] population", and was a "desperate attempt to rescue" the identity of the city.

Common sources of information published on Memoria Pichilemina are the Biblioteca Nacional de Chile and the libraries of the University of Chile. The website has published digitized versions of historic newspapers El Puerto (the first to be published in Pichilemu, in 1908), El Marino, Pichilemu, among others.

Newspaper La Voz de la Región qualified the website as a "convergence space between young people and adults willing to learn about the place they live in". The website also publishes an online re-edition of El Marino (first published in 1917) since 13 May 2014, which aims to "help spread the history" of Pichilemu.

Founder
Diego Grez Cañete (born 4 October 1994) is a long-time resident of Pichilemu. He completed his studies at Colegio de la Preciosa Sangre in 2012, and is a history student at the University of Chile. He is also a collaborator with online newspaper Pichilemu News, El Dínamo ("The Dynamic One"), and local newspaper El Expreso de la Costa ("The Express of the Coast").