Henia Kamiare

The Henia and Kamiare are the two peoples the Spanish lumped together as the Comechingones, who lived in the Sierras Pampeanas of what is now Córdoba and San Luis in Argentina. Hunters there had begun to eat maize some three thousand years earlier, and in the late pre-Hispanic centuries they lived in villages of semi-buried pit houses.

Spanish expeditions came from 1529, among them that of Diego de Rojas in 1543–1546. Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera founded Córdoba in 1573, and the natives of its valley were moved elsewhere. Encomienda labour and the settling of outsiders broke up their communities; by the end of the seventeenth century only six native villages, including Quilino and Soto, still held their lands.