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.