Auqajikuna

Auqajikuna lies on the Santiago plain between the Dulce and Salado rivers, in country inhabited by the Tonocoté. Their communities used the rivers' annual floods to water fields of maize, quinoa, beans and squash. In 1553 the Spanish established Santiago del Estero on the Dulce, in Tonocoté territory, and drew on the area's people and resources to support other settlements in Tucumán.