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Argentina: Mountains - Río Ceballos
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he Chicas Mountain ranges of Córdoba Beyond include populations of Villa Allende, Mendiolaza, Unquillo, Río Ceballos, Salsipuedes, El Manzano, Agua de Oro, La Granja, Ascochinga and Candonga, among others.
Rio Ceballos, city with certain reminiscencias of style normando, was one of the first tourist centers of the province although soon she was displaced by other cities, names it like "Heart of the Small Mountain ranges".
To only 6 km is the Dique de la Quebrada.
Río Ceballos was called "Ministalo" at the pre-Hispanic time, also called in other times Stay San Isidro or Isquitipi/e by the natural ones, does not have date of foundation, nor a founding personality. He was Juan de Cevallos in 1830, who on the base of an old establishment of comechingones it gave push to the city. It arises to the arrival of the conquerors, like a village of spontaneous growth, which the long ago most colorful one. It was not drawn up previously as other cities.
El Spanish found these earth populated with natural with Sacate origin or Sanavirona Sanavirona and also Comechingones or Camiares.
In the environs of Río Ceballos still vestiges of this agroalfarera culture can be found. Also places and places that maintain the missing voices of languages and dialectos.
The Comechingones being the most numerous natives in the region was of militant temperament. According to the stories of the conquerors, they used the word "comechingón" as shout military that it urged to kill and was because of this characteristic so characteristic that they were baptized by the Spaniards like Comechingones. They were very effective in the handling of the arc and the arrow, also they used wood canes lasts and, occasionally, they were used the fire to set afire the refuge of his enemies. For the war they used leather necklaces and they painted half of the red face of and the other of black.
They were agriculturists, knew the irrigation artificial. The domestic animal raising was given reason why the Spaniards called "Earth sheep".
Also one thinks that the dog accompanied to them. As far as the harvesting of great wild fruits they were sustained of sum of carob bean, which gathered by the fields, this was complemented with chañar and other own fruits of the region. The hunting was another one economic manifestation mentioning species of red deer, the guanaco, vizcacha common, the ferret, two species of fox, the hare of the Patagonia, iguanas, and diverse birds whose list heads the ñandúes.  |
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