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The
Quilmes people were an
indigenous tribe of the
Diaguita group settled in the western
subandean valleys of today’s
Tucumán province, in northwestern
Argentina.) They fiercely resisted the
Inca invasions of the
15th century, and continued to resist the
Spaniards for 130 years, until being defeated in
1667. Spanish invaders relocated the last 2,000 survivors to a reservation ("
reducción") 20 km south of
Buenos Aires. This 1,500 km journey was made by foot, causing hundreds of Quilmes to die in the process. By
1810, the reservation was abandoned as a result of its having become a ghost town. The place is now the city of
Quilmes.
The Quilmes Indians were one of the fiercest cultures which resisted the
Incas but eventually fell to the Spaniards. Today, there are only a few Quilmes left in Tucumán Province.
Quilmes ruins
On the way to
Cafayate, 182 km from
San Miguel de Tucumán, the Ruins of Quilmes may be seen; this is a fortified citadel which was raised by the Quilmes Indians. One of the most important archaeological locations in Argentina, the ruins were discovered by
ethnographer and
naturalist Juan Bautista Ambrosetti at the end of
19th century and restored in
1978.
As of 2007, this archaeological site is in private hands, and has a private hotel on its territory.
Population
Population at the beginning of the second half of the
17th century, is estimated in about 2,000 families, approximately 10,000 persons.
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