South of Cordoba in danger. Relationship between ranqueles and unitarian refugees (1841)

Abstract

The southern border of Córdoba was part of the large area known as Argentine Southern Border, with which it shares a set of structural relationships defined not only by the heartbreaking experience of the war but also by the crossing, connections and inter cultural dialogue. The work deals with the relationship between ranqueles and unitarians who took shelter in tolderí­as after the defeat of the forces of Gregorio Aráoz de Lamadrid who occupied Córdoba in 1840. It seeks to establish how the articulation of these two social forces affected the exercise of sovereignty by the provincial government. It is stated that the ranqueles attacks composed by unitarian refugees would have doubted about the exercise of territorial power by the provincial government