Qar Ka La

Qar Ka La is a name used by a Qom community in the Santa Fe plains. The Qom, also called Toba, speak a Guaycuruan language and traditionally inhabited the Gran Chaco to the north. Hunting, fishing and gathering sustained their communities in a country of woodland, grassland and rivers. During the colonial period the Chaco frontier saw encounters between Indigenous peoples, missionaries and settlements expanding from the Paraná.

The later city of Santa Fe lies here.