MundoAndino Home : Andes Argentina Guide at MundoAndino
San Martin, Mendoza
San Martin is a city in the north-center part of the Mendoza Province. It's the capital of the San Martin Department and constitutes together with Palmira and La Colonia the third metropolitan area of the province.
History
The first San Martin inhabitants were the ethnic group Huarpe Milkayak, the territory was governed by the tribal chief called Pallamay until 1563, when the first Europeans under the command of the captain Pedro Moyano Cornejo, arrived to the zone.
The city was known as Rodeo de Moyano or sometimes as La Reduccion but its name was changed by Villa Los Barriales in 1816, when it was included in the Corocorto Priesthood of the Mendoza Province and officially founded by the governor Toribio de Luzuriaga.
San Martin came into prominence in the war of the Argentine independence period, when Jose de San Martin received an extensive land in the zone to take advantage of agriculture and help the chilean army of Bernardo O'Higgins and so prevent new Spanish invasions from Chile to Argentina. In 1823 the governor Pedro Molina changed the name of the city one more time by the present one in homage to the Argentine general, who made many changes in the farming sector specially in viticulture.
In 1885, the first railway arrives in San Martin uniting Buenos Aires with Mendoza and Chile. In this period many Italian immigrants who came of the Rio de la Plata area populated the city.
During the second half of 20th century, it was constructed the National Route 7 converting the city into an important trading centre on the main trade routes across Buenos Aires and Santiago.
References
[[:es:San Martin (Mendoza)]]
External links
Need more information for your travel research or homework?
Ask your questions at the forum about Wine regions of Argentina or help others to find answers.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article San Martin, Mendoza
