Tapalquen

Tapalquen is associated with the Tapalqué stream in the pampas of Buenos Aires, near the later town of Olavarría. The stream flows across open plains and past low rocky hills, in country inhabited by Indigenous communities. From 1832 followers of the leader Catriel occupied lands south and west of the Tapalqué under arrangements with the government of Buenos Aires. The watercourse lay within a frontier shaped by negotiation as well as conflict.