Puesto Cayuqueo
The place
Puesto Cayuqueo in Santa Cruz province, Perito Moreno/Los Antiguos area (Patagonian Cordillera, southern Andes, on the Chile border, Argentina), at 665 m elevation, on the Patagonian steppe. Continuous Argentine Patagonia cluster (batches 260-386, 2 entries). A traditional Patagonian gaucho puesto (ranch) (Cayuqueo, a Mapuche surname, Cayuqueo/Cayucao meaning "chief of peace" + puesto, a Merino/Patagonian sheep-ranching estancia outpost + Santa Cruz, 245,000 km², AR's 3rd largest province + Patagonia's heritage of Bruce Chatwin's 1977 "In Patagonia", an iconic travel narrative + Perito Francisco Moreno, 1852-1919, heritage of the glaciologist and explorer of the AR/CL Patagonian border + heritage of the Mapuche/Tehuelche peoples (Mapuche people, 300,000 in AR, 1.7 million in CL, speakers of Mapuzugun, 6% + the Tehuelche/Aonikenk of southern Patagonia, a now-extinct native people numbering around 200 + the ancestral Mapuche Wallmapu of the south + the Conquista del Desierto, 1878-1885, led by Julio Argentino Roca, 15,000 Mapuche dead, forced deportation by the Argentine State).
The setting
Santa Cruz Perito Moreno/Los Antiguos Patagonian Cordillera southern Andes CL border Argentina 665 m Patagonian steppe, continuous cluster batches 260-386 2 entries, gaucho puesto Cayuqueo Mapuche "chief of peace" + Merino/Patagonian sheep estancia + Santa Cruz 245,000 km² 3rd largest AR + Bruce Chatwin 1977 In Patagonia + Perito Moreno 1852-1919 glaciologist AR/CL border, Mapuche/Tehuelche Mapuche 300,000 AR 1.7 million CL Mapuzugun 6% + Tehuelche Aonikenk 200 extinct + ancestral Wallmapu + Conquista del Desierto 1878-1885 Roca 15,000 dead deportation.
