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Death of Facundo Quiroga at Barranca Yaco.

Barranca de Yaco or Barranca Yaco (from the Spanish barranca (gully) and the Quechua yaku (water)) is a geographical feature along the ancient camino real (royal road) of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, located between Villa Tulumba and Sinsacate, in the province of Córdoba, Argentina.

The place is famous because General Juan Facundo Quiroga, Governor and caudillo of La Rioja, was assassinated there by a party led by Santos Pérez, on 16 February 1835, during the Argentine Civil Wars. Santos Pérez along with the former Governor of Córdoba José Vicente Reynafé and two of his brothers were judged and hanged for this crime at Buenos Aires in 1837. Since 2009 there is a memorial square that remembers Quiroga and those killed with him.

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Notes

  1. Zárate, Armando (1985). Facundo Quiroga, Barranca Yaco: juicios y testimonios. Colección Política e historia. Plus Ultra, p. 19 (in Spanish)
  2. Carrasco Quintana, Martín (2004). Como se mata a un caudillo: papeles de Barranca Yaco. El Calafate, p. 88. ISBN 987-1038-01-1 (in Spanish)
  3. Bigongiari, Diego (1991). A Guide to highways, villages, towns and roads: Argentina. Pirelli Argentina, 81. ISBN 950-99539-0-3
  4. Levene, Ricardo (1963). A history of Argentina. Russell & Russell, p. 409
  5. Lynch, John (1981). Argentine dictator: Juan Manuel De Rosas, 1829-1852. Clarendon, p. 225. ISBN 0198211295
  6. Inauguran asfalto y monumento en Barranca Yaco. La Voz newspaper, 14 February 2009 (in Spanish)

30°51′57.6″S 64°6′2.6″W / 30.866000°S 64.100722°W / -30.866000; -64.100722


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