Ulapes

Ulapes lies in the dry plains of La Rioja, east of the Andean ranges. Its water source and surrounding lands were valued by colonial settlers raising livestock in Los Llanos. In 1732 Antonio Reynoso Tello acquired the watering place and land around it, paying with mules, cloth and silver. The property lay on a new road to San Luis, and became the site of a livestock estate in a sparsely settled region.