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Argentina: North - Tafí del Valle
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afí and Valles Calchaquíes.
The Tafí name comes from the diaguita voice Taktikllakta that means "town of splendid entrance". Through the Straits of Bering, and it does about 30,000 years arrived at the American continent the first tribes from hunters. Thousands of years but late entered in which today it is Argentina.
In "the early" period, the oldest culture is located in Tafí (Tucumán), 2,500 years in the past.
One was towns agriculturists, sedentary, who cultivated the maize, the Pope, zapallo and vegetables like habas The religious components had an important gravitation in the life of these groups. Their houses were simple and today we can see them next to other native architectonic manifestations, in the reserve La Bolsa.
Some students affirm that in Tafí a noticeable Diaguita influence had to exist. By winding ways, between defiles by where they lower waters of defrosting, he arrives himself at the Calchaquíes valleys. Inserted between graníticos bulks with eternal snows, he is located Tafí del Valle, and in its environs the Dock the Narrowness. Taif of the Valley condenses the ancestral fused indigenous customs with the Spanish culture. Near the 900 d.C, we lose all type of information with respect to this culture.
We do not know if political, economic problems or unfavorable climatic conditions retired of the Valley by, or if they only lack to make scientific researches. Native neighboring valley towns settle down in the Valley, like the one of Santa Maria, of El Cajón, or the Calchaquí. Also these groups were agriculturists and shepherds, but with technological, social and political a development superior to the one of the previous cultures. At the end of century XV these towns fall under incaico dominion. This is, the valley of Tafí happens to be more of the areas controlled by this empire.
One was a strategic zone for them, since this valley is a species of border in front of the populations single-breasted uniform jackets of the region chaqueña. In 1636, the kings give to the valley in "Real Favor" to P.de Leguizamón and Guevara.
so that it can be taken advantage of with the production of cultures. The heirs receive it as he entrusts, being a remarkable reduction from the native population.
The earth are sold to the Company of Jesus in 1716. They raise the first chapel of the Valley and they are dedicated to evangelizar the population.
When the Jesuitas is expelled from America, the earth are hopeless and the authorities of the tucumano government take control of the same ones.
Just in second half of century XX, with the opening of the access route to valleys it is that the population of these regions leaves its isolation.
In 1977 the Municipality of Tafí del Valle is created. They are very just a short time constructed in several hotels of high category offering to the tourist the possibility of remaining, in trip towards the Calchaquíes Valleys.
To 107 km of the provincial capital and to 1976 msnm., Tafí combines mountains, rivers and an ideal climate with comforts in hotels and designed restaurants to tone with the landscape.
Tafí del Valle, it is the front door of the valleys Calchaquíes and this surrounded by the Nonoco Hill, the Great one, the Muñoz, Mala Mala one, the Negrito and the Pelao Hill. From Acheral, in the department of Montero, the landscape begins a to become. The plain becomes, slowly in a forest of thick vegetation that covers the borders with the river Los Sosa, following throughout almost all the passage until reaching the 2,000 heights superior to mts.  |
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