Luis Valencia Avaria (1917 â 1990) was a Chilean historian.
Valencia Avaria was the son of the Chilean parliamentarian Luis Valencia Courbis, and Blanca Avaria MarÃÂn.
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.
Another of his important publications was SÃÂmbolos patrios (1974), a study of the historical meaning of the national symbols of Chile.
In 1978 he won a contest organized by the Organization of American States for his book Bernardo O'Higgins, el buen genio de América.
Some of his published works include: