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.