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Argentina: North - Cachí
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achi, the Earth of the inexplicable salt.
Located in the convergence of the rivers Cachi and Calchaquí, the city of Cachi comprises of the Calchaquí Valley surrounded by hills and Andean mountains. In language quechua the Cachi word means Salt but its reason, another etimología cannot be explained that is assigned to him, comes from the diaguita language, in which "Kak" means rock, stone or rock and "chi" or "chin", silence or solitude. Another version speaks of a word atacameño that means Valle Hermoso.
Previous to the conquest, the diaguitas populated this earth, that were sedentary agriculturists, expert metallurgical potters and, and who in addition had domesticated and bred flames. This indigenous town had rejected the advance of the Incas but in year 1,300 the incaico empire managed to impose certain domination, although the diaguitas continued developing to their form and style of life.
To the distribution of charges in Salta, carried out in 1673, was assigned to Doña Margarita de Chávez the one that corresponded to Cachi, appearing years later, in 1719, as proprietor of I found, Don Pascal Elizanda and later Don Felipe de Aramburu, giving origin to which it was known like "Property of Cachi", immense property that per years locked up in its sine the town.
The zone was denominated Pueblo Viejo, having great historical and tourist value, to be a colonial construction of the century XVIII, that began with the considered church an architectonic jewel, destined to the catechesis and the consolidation of the Hispanic language.
The new town was constructed towards the decade of 1950 in lands expropiados to the property Cachi Property in 1946, by the national government. to San José de Cachi, a small town to borders of the river Calchaquí, employee of the municipality of Cachi, that has the privilege of to have been cradle of the birth of the Dr Victorino de la Plaza, one of the Presidents of the Argentina Nation.  |
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