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Argentina: Mountains - Mina Clavero

he Valle de Traslasierra, is to the west of the Province of Córdobaa, between mountainous cords of Achala and Pocho. The tourist Capital of this Valley is the city of Mina Clavero of keys to borders of the river homónimo, in the lateral West of the summit of Achala, central cord of the mountain ranges.
To the arrival of the Spaniards by the end of century XVI, these earth were inhabited by the Comechingones Indians, led by the cacique Milac Navira.
Towards 1543 Diego Fernández, cronista of Diego de Rojas, describes to Comechingones of the Cordovan mountain ranges, like men of high stature, who used beard, element that distinguished them of other natives, and hard pigmentación in the skin. They cultivated the Earth and by another side they developed the hunting and the harvesting, they raised flames, seeded maize, poroto, zapallo and quinoa. The grains were worn out in fixed mortars excavated rock in the heat of. The base of their menu was the guanacos, red deers and hares, the fruits of the carob bean and chañar.
They lived in semiunderground houses, like grottos and natural shelters that can be found in the mountain region.
Pedro Cieza de León describes the houses to us of comechingones that took contact with the European from the following form: "they dug the earth houses until going deep in her they were left two walls natural, they soon armed them with wood and they covered them with straw ".
The clothes comechingona had great Andean influence: its elaborated t-shirt and blanket with flame wool, adorned with rods or hairbands.
The communities were commanded by a cacique.
Does not know its elf a certain date on the foundation of Mina Clavero, but he knows that in 1887, Cura José Gabriel Brochero convinced Doña Anastasia Fabre de Merlo so that it installed in this place a house of guests, the one that began to work a pair of years later. In 1927 it was begun with the political organization of the villa that culminated with the election of the first intendant in 1928. The 11 of October of 1946 Doña Anastasia passed away, and for that reason of keys takes itself to this day like date of the spiritual foundation of Mina Clavero.

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