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Rosas's campaign resulted in a brief period of peace with indigenous communities and brought an end to the malones, until he was defeated and overthrown at the Battle of Caseros in 1852. [14] Despite having been at war with the Argentine forces since 1821, the indigenous population led counter-attacks during the Battle of Caseros.
Map of the advance of the Argentina frontier until the establishment of zanja de Alsina. Forts and fortlets in the Pampas before the Conquest of the Desert. In 1875, Adolfo Alsina, Minister of War for President Nicolás Avellaneda, presented the government with a plan which he later described as having the goal "to populate the desert, and not to destroy the natives."
El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve (Spanish: Reserva de la Biosfera El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar) is a biosphere reserve and UNESCO World Heritage Site [1] managed by the federal government of Mexico, specifically by Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources, in collaboration with the state governments of Sonora and the Tohono O'odham.
Del Desierto Lake, with Mount Fitz Roy in the background Lago del Desierto (Spanish for "Lake of the Desert") is located within a glacial valley at 49°02′13″S 72°51′49″W / 49.03694°S 72.86361°W / -49.03694; -72.86361 ( Laguna del Desierto ) , north and east of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field (Spanish Campo de Hielo ...
The Gran Desierto covers approximately 5,700 square kilometres (2,200 sq mi), most of it in the Mexican state of Sonora. The northernmost edges reach across the international border into Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and Cabeza Prieta National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Arizona, United States.
Museo del Desierto. The Desert Museum (Spanish: Museo del Desierto) is a museum in Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico, that promotes an ecological culture.It was designed by the architect Francisco López Guerra and was inaugurated on 25 November 1999. [1]
María Remedios del Valle was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and was listed in her military records as a parda, a term formerly applied to triracial descendants of Europeans, Indigenous Americans, and West African slaves, that later became applied to people of mostly or entirely African descent. [2]
The Tabernas Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Tabernas) is a desert located within Spain's south-eastern province of Almería. It is in the interior, about 30 kilometers (19 mi) north of the provincial capital Almería, in the Tabernas municipality in Andalusia. [1] It is the only desert in Europe, since most of its area has a desert climate. [2]