Barranca de Yaco or Barranca Yaco (from the Spanish barranca ( gully) and the Quechua yaku (water)) [1] is a geographical feature along the ancient camino real (royal road) of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, [2] located between Villa Tulumba and Sinsacate, in the province of Córdoba, Argentina. [3]
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. [4] 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. [5] Since 2009 there is a memorial square that remembers Quiroga and those killed with him. [6]
30°51′57.6″S 64°6′2.6″W / 30.866000°S 64.100722°W
Barranca de Yaco or Barranca Yaco (from the Spanish barranca ( gully) and the Quechua yaku (water)) [1] is a geographical feature along the ancient camino real (royal road) of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, [2] located between Villa Tulumba and Sinsacate, in the province of Córdoba, Argentina. [3]
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. [4] 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. [5] Since 2009 there is a memorial square that remembers Quiroga and those killed with him. [6]
30°51′57.6″S 64°6′2.6″W / 30.866000°S 64.100722°W