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Chaco derives from chaku, the Quechua word used to name a hunting territory or the hunting technique used by the people of the Inca Empire.. Annually, large groups of up to thirty thousand hunters would enter the territory, forming columns and circling their prey. [6]
Cuyo is the wine-producing, mountainous region of central-west Argentina.Historically it comprised the provinces of San Juan, San Luis and Mendoza.The modern New Cuyo includes both Cuyo proper and the province of La Rioja.
The Province of Santa Fe (Spanish: Provincia de Santa Fe, Spanish pronunciation: [ˈsanta ˈfe], lit."Holy Faith") is a province of Argentina, located in the center-east of the country.
At that time it was called "native music" —the term "folklore" and "folkloric music" to refer to popular music inspired by rhythms belonging to folklore would appear in the 50s —and Chazarreta himself formed his Compañía de Arte Nativo del Norte Argentino, which debuted on June 19, 1911 and with he would tour the country. [57]
Juan Saá, early advocate for provincial autonomy. The city of San Luis was founded in 1594 by Luis Jufré de Loaysa y Meneses, but was subsequently abandoned. It was refounded by Martín García Óñez de Loyola in 1596 under the name San Luis de Loyola.
Across the street opposite Retiro train terminal is the leafy Plaza San Martín, surrounded by great palaces and hotels.The Retiro lowlands were once the training grounds for General José de San Martín's Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers, and the modern-day Plaza San Martín features an equestrian monument to the hero of the Argentine War of Independence, as well as a memorial to the dead in ...
Martín Miguel de Güemes, a soldier and politician who fought in the Argentine War of Independence.. Before the Spanish conquest, numerous native peoples (now called Diaguitas and Calchaquíes) lived in the valleys of what is now Salta Province; they formed many different tribes, the Quilmes and Humahuacas among them, which all shared the Cacán language.
Southwestward view of Recoleta in 2014, overlooking Floralis Genérica and the National Library.. The Recoleta neighborhood is composed of the area limited by Montevideo and Uruguay Streets, Córdoba Avenue, Mario Bravo and Coronel Díaz Streets, Las Heras Avenue, Tagle Street, the F.G.B.M railway, Jerónimo Salguero Street, and by the Río de La Plata or River Plate.