Quines

Quines lies at the foot of the San Luis ranges, where a river of the same name crosses the dry northern plain. The name appears in colonial records concerning land sought by the Spanish captain Domingo Sánchez Chaparro. By 1779 Quines had a commissioner charged with local authority, and a census in 1812 recorded almost a thousand inhabitants. The settlement grew in a landscape where streams descending from the mountains offered water amid the surrounding dry country.