Jaurua

Jaurúa lay in the Uco country east of the Andes, among the valleys and grazing lands south of Mendoza. Indigenous Huarpe communities inhabited the region before Spanish settlement. In the colonial period, estates in the Uco valley raised cattle, and the area became a meeting place for Indigenous peoples from the mountains and the plains. After 1660, groups identified as Chiquillanes and Pampas were moved into the valley under arrangements involving the colonial authorities.