Luis Valencia Avaria

Luis Valencia Avaria (1917 – 1990) was a Chilean historian.

Valencia Avaria was the son of the Chilean parliamentarian Luis Valencia Courbis, and Blanca Avaria Marín.

Career Valencia Avaria served as director of the Archivo O'Higgins and worked on the compilation of Anales de la República, a documentary reference work that records citizens who formed the executive and legislative branches of the Chilean state throughout the country's history.

He was also a member of the Academia Chilena de la Historia.

In 1978 he won a contest organized by the Organization of American States for his book Bernardo O'Higgins, el buen genio de América.

Works Some of his published works include:

Campaña y batalla de Rancagua. Santiago: Editorial del Pacífico, 1964. Archivo Bernardo O'Higgins. Volumes XX, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XVIII, XXIX and XXX. Santiago: Academia Chilena de la Historia, 1964–1970. Símbolos patrios. Santiago: Editora Nacional Gabriela Mistral, 1974. Pensamiento de O'Higgins. Santiago: Editorial del Pacífico, 1974. Bernardo O'Higgins el buen genio de América. Santiago: Editorial Universitaria, 1980.