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| Quilmes ruins |
The Quilmes people were the last indiginous tribe to hold out against the Spanish conquistadors in the 1600s.
They had already been held under the rule of the Incas, but they held off the first two attempts by the Spanish. They were eventually overcome at the third invasion, and the Spanish sent them to walk the 500 plus miles to Buenos Aires, where there is now an area named for them. However some few people escaped into the hills and have now settled into villages in the areas nearby.
The settlement is in ruins and there are no complete buildings remaining, but you can see the walls of the many houses and crop stores that would have made up their village, as well as the markings on the walls that signified serpents (the triangles) and domesticated animals such as llamas (the rectangles). Our guide gave us an outline of the Quilmes peoples' history and way of life, which included making offerings to Mother Earth and, as with many ancient peoples, the occasional animal sacrifice when problems arose.
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