COLONIZATION,
INVASION, RESISTANCE AND LIBERATION ARE THE LANDMARKS THAT MARK THE
HISTORY OF THE CITY OF BUENOS AIRES. FOR CURIOUS TRAVELERS,
HERE GOES THE BIRTH OF THE TOWERING QUEEN
DEL PLATA .
FIRST
TRIED. THE
THE FIRST FOUNDATION OF THE CITY DATES FROM 1536 AND WAS PROMOTED BY THE
SPANISH PEDRO DE MENDOZA, WHO CAME TO THIS SIDE OF THE WORLD IN
SEARCH FOR GOLD AND SILVER. MENDOZA BAPTIZED IT WITH THE NAME OF “PUERTO
OF OUR LADY SANTA MARÍA DEL BUEN AYRE ”AND INSTALLED A FORT
TO DEFEND THE AREA. THIS PRECARIOUS STRONG CONSISTED
IN A
150-YARD EARTH WALL PER SIDE, TWO
METERS LONG AND
A PIT WITH A PALISADE. INSIDE, THERE WERE MUD RANCHES AND
STRAW, USED AS HOUSES, AND FIVE CHURCHES. HOWEVER, WITH
OVER TIME, SE
THEY WERE COMPLICATING
THINGS FOR NEWCOMERS. THE
THE BANKS OF THE RÍO DE LA PLATA WERE NOT INHOSPITABLE PLACES: THERE
ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES SETTLED THAT SE
RESISTED
A
THE SPANISH ARRIVAL,
BESIEGING THE CITY AND CAUSING A SHORTAGE OF SUCH MAGNITUDE
THAT FORCED EXPLORERS TO SEARCH FOR OTHER LANDS.
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SECOND
IS PAST DUE.
DESPITE INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE, THE SPANISH CONTINUED
TRYING. IN 1536, THEY HAD NOT FOUND WEALTH BUT THEY HAD
NOTED THE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF THE TERRITORY: THE DIRECT EXIT
TO THE SOUTH ATLANTIC THE POSSIBILITY OF BUILDING A CITY SHONE THROUGH
PORT GIFTED
OF GREAT ADVANTAGES .
AND SPANIARDS DON'T LOST
THE TIME. THUS, IN 1580, WITH JUAN DE GARAY AT THE HELM,
THE SECOND EXPEDITION THAT WOULD TAKE AS
RESULT THE SECOND AND FINAL FOUNDATION OF BUENOS AIRES. OF THE
OLD FORT THERE WERE NO NI
VESTIGES AND ON JUNE 11 THE NEW “CITY OF THE
SANTÍSIMA TRINIDAD AND PUERTO DE SANTA MARÍA DEL BUEN AYRE ”. A
ONCE THE CITY WAS BAPTIZED, JUAN DE GARAY DIVIDED THE LANDS BETWEEN
HIS COMPANIONS, HE ASSIGNED SOME TO GUARANÍ FAMILIES AND DECIMATED
TO NATIVE QUERANDIS UNTIL THEY FINISH THEIR CULTURE.
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LITTLE BUENOS AIRES. THE
INCIPIENT POPULATION GREW VERY SLOWLY DURING THE FIRST TWO
CENTURIES. AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 17TH CENTURY, THE CITY WAS MADE UP OF
A NEW FORT, THREE CONVENTS AND SEVERAL MUD AND STRAW HOUSES.
THIS AREA COVERED 250 BLOCKS, COVERING THE DEFINED AREA
THROUGH THE CURRENT STREETS BALCARCE Y
25
MAY TO AV. INDEPENDENCIA, AND THROUGH THE STREETS SALTA Y
FREEDOM UNTIL AV. CÓRDOBA. WHILE MANY BLOCKS WERE URBAN,
THE MAJORITY WAS INTENDED FOR THE INSTALLATION OF FARMS.
< B> SUCCESSION
OF CAPITAL. IN
HIS
ORIGINS, & NBSP; THE CITY FUNCTIONED AS THE CAPITAL OF A GOVERNORATE THAT DEPENDED
OF THE VICEROYALTY OF PERU. WITH THE CREATION OF THE VICEROYALTY OF THE RIO DE
LA PLATA IN 1776, BUENOS AIRES BECAME ITS CAPITAL. THE CITY IS
ORGANIZED ACCORDING TO THE MODEL ESTABLISHED IN THE REMAINING COLONIES OF THE
NEW CONTINENT: AN URBAN LAYOUT AROUND A MAIN SQUARE.
THUS, IT WAS DRAWN FROM THE PLAZA MAYOR-HEADQUARTERS OF THE POWERS
ADMINISTRATIVE- THE STREETS THAT WOULD DELIMIT THE CITY. I KNOW
THEY PLACED THE CABILDO AND THE CATHEDRAL IN THE PLACES THEY OCCUPY
CURRENTLY AND IN THE EASTERN SECTOR OF THE PLAZA, THE FORT OF
THE CITY. YOUR
CONSTRUCTION WAS COMPLETED IN 1720 & NBSP; AND WAS WALLED WITH STONES AND SURROUNDED BY A MOAT. I ONLY KNOW
IT WAS ACCESSED FROM THE PLAZA MAYOR, BY MEANS OF A DRAWBRIDGE & NBSP; WHICH WAS LOCATED WHERE THE CENTRAL ARCH IS TODAY BUILT DE LA CASA ROSADA. & NBSP; MORE THAN A CENTURY WILL HAVE TO PASS FOR BUENOS AIRES TO
TRANSFORM INTO THE CAPITAL OF THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. AFTER THE
INDEPENDENCE ACHIEVED IN 1810, ARGENTINA WILL BEGIN TO THINK
AS A COUNTRY AND ONLY AROUND 1880, WITH THE FORMATION OF THE STATE
NATIONAL, BUENOS AIRES WILL BE DECLARED AS ITS CAPITAL.
TO
DISCOVER THE MYSTERIOUS BUENOS AIRES WITH ITS MYTHS, STREETS AND
STORY, APPROACH TANGOL .
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