Melincue Lake

Melincué is a shallow lagoon on the plains of southern Santa Fe. Its waters lie in a low basin whose shores change with rainfall and evaporation. In the late eighteenth century the lagoon became a point on the frontier between Spanish colonial settlements and Indigenous territories to the south. Juan González began a fort at Melincué in 1777; it was completed in 1779 and later had to be moved as the waters affected its site.