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Location: 182 Km from San Miguel de Tucuman
15 Km from Amaicha of the Valley

Height: 1972 m. On the level of the sea

Climate: The climate is arid and dry. High temperatures.

Where to sleep: There is a littles hotel inside the ruins, it´s located aside of the museum.

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Articles about the Ruins

The ruins of Quilmes, a story of heroism and banishment The ruins of the prehistoric settlement of Quilmes, in Tucuman, embody the history of the banishment of those people who originally was revealed against the Spanish conquistadors to the shores of the Rio de la Plata, some 1,500 kilometers south. Of the nearly 4,000 exiles, many died on the way on foot towards the coast rioplatense and those who came to what is now the south of Buenos Aires, none had offspring. Of these only became the name of a city and the certainty that the chapel built for evangelising, after the hard journey, was where today stands the Cathedral of the city of Quilmes. One traveled to the ruins reveals architecture, which highlights two strengths that Quilmes had built to defend themselves from attack by other nations, and in which over 130 years resisted the siege Spanish. At that time, these indigenous cultivated large tracts of corn, quinoa, potatoes, beans and chillies and collected chañar and carob, which served food products, and their herds of llamas got meat, milk and wool. In the city of stone can be seen trails, common mortars, two cemeteries and many homes, some square and rectangular and other, more distant, pens, but the criteria used for the reconstruction done during the last dictatorship, were questioned in the archaeological field. Studies on the ruins of the city of Quilmes, located 1,700 meters above sea level and 15 kilometers from Amaicha Valley showed that urban settlement was already inhabited in the eleventh century. The city of Quilmes was built at the base of Cerro Alto del Rey, the home of the chiefs at the highest point, where we were both strongholds from which guarded the entrances. The settlement took advantage of the natural peaks of the mountains for their protection, with the houses at the foot of the hill and a dam, further south, from which water is diverted for canchones of sembradío. Because of the characteristics of urban complex, which occupies approximately 30 hectares is estimated that the population could reach 5,000 inhabitants, who resisted with bravura progress of the powerful Inca people, but succumbed to the Spaniards. The story defines the Quilmes as a warlike people, which at mid - seventeenth century it was conquered by the conquerors, who called the Fort of San Francisco instead of Quilmes. The priest Pedro Lozano, a historian of the Society of Jesus, wrote that Quilmes were from Chile and who had arrived here after crossing the Andes Mountains to escape the siege of the Incas. From this side of the mountains had to face the Calchaquíes that saw as invaders, until after bloody struggles managed to live in peace. So, in that place is now known as the Valley of Santa Maria, erected a settlement reached great evolution in their social system. After the final battle, after the siege of the Spanish more than a century, many of the 260 families survivors themselves decided not to abandon the worship of their gods nor succumb to the domain of white men. On January 2, 1667, the then governor Alonso Market and Villacorta exile before ending with the people native to America. The ruins of Quilmes last century were discovered by the archaeologist at the University of Buenos Aires Juan Bautista Ambrosetti and restored in 1978 by a team led by Norberto Pelissero, with criteria that archaeologists now seen more touristic than anthropological.

Quilmes`s Ruins

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Quilmes's ruins are located to 182 km from Tucumán's San Miguel. This region was sheltering an enormous indigenous population, the Quilmes, and it is considered to be the biggest human pre-Hispanic accession of the Argentina. The ruins restored and accompanied of a museum, are the recollections of this richest culture, that for 130 years the diaguitas resisted there the Spanish occupation. Important studies did works to themselves for the recovery of the ruins of the Antigua Quilmes's City, 300 years after the tribe was forced to leave the place. Quilmes's deposit, he had to be relieved in all his extension, to be able to select the most representative sector to be restored. Finally, a sector at the foot of the named High hill of the King stayed as sample of the type of indigenous accession, both in the edilicio-architectural thing and in his urban development structure, showing the complex functionality that there denounce the diverse enclosures that shape Quilmes's housings. Today they are considered to be one of the most valuable archaeological deposits of the country. And everything made tries to give a clear idea of what was the life of this great community. In the museum of the ruins of quilmes material obtained of the excavations shows itself. Between(among) them the pottery, cores habitacionales, strengths, defensive redoubts, corrals, warehouses with walls of stone flagstone, testimonies of the advanced degree of his culture. As for the crafts: they work different materials: carved in stone, wood, basket-making pennyroyal. Also there are realized artesanalmente sweets, syrup, jerked beef and mead of locust-bean. A hotel and a museum has been constructed by materials of the zone, specially stones. Tourism and rural tourism can echo.

Clue 16

At about past eleven, the maid heard the front door opening and footsteps in the hall. It was Mrs Fairfax, coming in from the garden. She went straight into the living room.

Nine Colombians Killed In Suspected Rebel Massacre

Last Sunday nine people, including four children was killed in a Colombian farm, near Ecuador´s border. This was the second massacre in the week that was made by FARC.
In the first massacre in this week, five people was killed with a shot in the head. FARC look for the people door to door with a list of names.
The Colombian president ask for help to the U.S Forces to become the cities more safe.

*Vocabulary

Threatened: To be a source of danger to; menace.
Blamed: To hold responsible; find fault with; censure
Peasant: A member of a class of persons, as in Europe, Asia, and Latin America, who are small farmers or farm laborers of low social rank.
Eased: freedom from labor, pain, or physical annoyance; tranquil rest; comfort.

*Personal Reaction

Well, i think the problem in the Colombian´s territory is fight for the intersts of the goverment and the drugs dealer. Killing inocent people is not the way for arrive to a positive solution. And is not good that the americans arrive at Colombia because the warfare could become worst.