Atoj Wasin

Atoj Wasin is a Tonokoté community name in the Salado River country of Santiago del Estero. The Tonokoté inhabited the plains around the rivers of this dry region before Spanish settlement. The Salado became a frontier between the colonial settlements centred on Santiago del Estero and the Chaco to the east. Indigenous communities continued to live along its course, where seasonal river water supported cultivation in an otherwise arid landscape.