 Her persona is strongly mythified, and survives in Chilean culture as the epitome of the wicked and abusive woman.Catalina was the daughter of the Spanish nobleman Gonzalo de los Ríos y Encío and his wife, Catalina Lisperguer y Flores, both members of the Chilean nobility.Her father was the son of Gonzalo de los Ríos y Ávila, a Spanish soldier who fought in the Conquest of Chile, and María Encío, the sister of Juan Encío, who was one of the financiers of the expedition of Pedro de Valdivia.