De Rokha was born in the small town of Licantén in the Maule Region, Chile, the son of Ignacio Díaz Alvarado and Laura Loyola Muñoz.https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVM2-9RS9 See Marriage certificate.Chile Civil Registration. Corrected by Mariana Romo-Carmona He was the oldest of nineteen siblings. De Rokha was baptized in the Parroquia de Licantén on 24 October 1894.Partida de bautismo, foja 632, libro no. 2. Publicado en Pablo de Rokha. Genio del pueblo, pág. 341. . His family was middle class farmers from a rural area and de Rokha's father did various jobs to earn a living, such as a farm manager and a chief customs officer in the Andes border crossings. De Rokha spent his childhood on the farm "Pocoa de Corinto" (Pocoa of Corinth farm) where his father was working as manager, and used to accompany his father to the Andes border crossings.
