Río Negro (Argentina)
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Río Negro is the main river of Patagonia in terms of the size of its drainage basin, its associated agricultural produce and population living at its shores. In eastern Patagonia it is also the larges
Rio Negro near the mouth, seen from its northern bank, between the cities of Viedma, Río Negro and Carmen de Patagones, Buenos Aires
Meander scars, oxbow lakes, and abandoned meanders in the broad flood plain of the Río Negro near Colonia Josefa. 2010 photo from ISS
Conquest of the Desert
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The Conquest of the Desert was an Argentine military campaign directed mainly by General Julio Argentino Roca during the 1870s and 1880s with the intention of establishing dominance over Patagonia, in
Río Negro (Argentina)
…The river served briefly as a natural demarcation between "civilization" and the indigenous territories in the late 1870s and early 1880s during the Conquest of the Desert. In the 1900s Welsh settlers from Chubut were granted land in Choele Choel. The river is divided into three parts: The Alto Valle (High Valley) near…
Conquest of the Desert, by Juan Manuel Blanes (fragment showing Julio Argentino Roca, at the front)
Mapuches during a malón raid.
Merida Fresken Pacheco 15 Diego de Landa