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Argentina: Mountains - Jesús Maria
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esús Maria, happened of Stay.
In all the scope of the Cordovan Mountain ranges they inhabited comechingones and sanavirones, primitive towns of the region that dedicated themselves to the culture of the maize, porotos, zapallo and Pope. Also they were criadores of animals as the flame, were costumary sedentary and their houses constructed in straw and wood sometimes were halfed-bury or in caves.
For the hunting and the fight they used boleadoras and his physicist stood out by the great stature. With the foundation of Córdoba in 1573 the hispanización of comechingones began.
The Company of Jesus arrives at the province of Córdoba in 1599.
The departure point of this Cordovan city, pays attention to the cession of a earth favor to the Spanish encomendero Pedro de Deza on the part of Lorenzo Suarez de Figueroa, in 1575. After the death of Deza, the property happens through several hands until in 1618, concretely the 15 of January, the jesuitas in the person of Pedro de Oñate buy the Alférez Real, Don Gaspar de Quevedo, the Guanusacate Stay, to which they give the name of Jesus Maria.
The Stay Jesus Maria was the second productive nucleus of the system organized by the Company of Jesus as of 1618. This stay was characterized by its vitivinícola production, that has extended in the time having constituted a characteristic of the zone.
Besides to elaborate wine they made other activities like: the cattle ranch, both current mills and a fulling mill, and two looms of cordellate. Also other products were cultivated like: apples, grenades, peaches, peach trees, wheat, maize, barley, saffron, chick-peas, lentils, quinoa, habas and peas.
During the first third of century XVIII, jointly with the economic height of the stay, the construction of the most outstanding sectors of the building began, since at the moment of acquisition of same the existing constructions they were of marinates and straw.
In 1767, with Real the Pragmatic one of Carlos III, king of Spain, the jesuitas are expelled and all their possessions happen to be administered by the Meeting of Temporalidades.
From the expulsion of the Company to 1775, the Stay was administered by the Meeting of Temporalidades. The control of that management was not very efficient and little by little the establishment fell in the abandonment. It leaves to closing in three opportunities and in all the interested ones they comprise of the family of Don Felix Correia de Larrea, finally the purchase its Orencio son.
Later Pío Leon buys a great part of the same ones, citizen Paraguayan who from kill time lives in the region and he married with Doña Saturnina Berrotarán, Cordovan citizen. Already in 1860, Leon evolves like authority in the Totoral department.
In 1868 with the construction of the railroad between Córdobaa and Tucumán, Pío Leon sees causes the opportunity to lotear the lands that are adjacent to the next iron way, and to compliment this idea, it orders corresponding works a the same company that constructs the railroad: Telfener and company. In September of 1873 the loteo is ready and begins to be sold of a four lots by apple, moment in which is born a new land population of the Stay Jesus Maria, located on the right margin of the river.
Jesus Maria was founded officially on 1878, being the Stay Jesus Maria, the departure point for the development of the city that today takes its name.
The Government of the province creates the Municipality in October of 1880, with jurisdiction in all the North department Attached. The first government was a triunvirato in charge of the neighbors Pío Leon (son), Antonio Bottazzini and Cástulo Peña.
The new law of Municipalities of 1884, proclaims the figure of the intendant and vowels, being the first intendant Pío Leon (son).
The 14 of May of 1941, de is declared to the old Jesuítica Stay Jesus Maria, National Historical Monument.  |
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