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Landmark Americas archaeological

Quilmes Ruins

850 CE – still standing

Pre-Columbian Diaguita fortress city in the Calchaquí Valley, occupied for over 1,000 years

Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–800 CE)
  2. Savanna hunter-gatherers (900 CE–1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Diaguita (1492 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Savanna hunter-gatherers (1500 CE–1715 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata (1783 CE–1800 CE) Border precision: Defined
  6. United Provinces of La Plata (1815 CE) Border precision: Defined
  7. Argentina (1880 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
  • Defined
  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Americas at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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