criollo cattle

…on which to raise tough criollo (Creole) cattle, which had survived from earlier expeditions. Ranchers defeated local Indians in 1885 and advanced to the northern frontier of the Argentine Chaco near the Bermejo River. Logging operations followed the ranchers and helped open parts of the Chaco—particularly in the east, where…

…on exploitation of the longhorn criollo (or Creole) cattle that roamed half wild throughout the region. The western Chaco Austral, near Salta, also was exploited as a source of heavy timbers for the mines in the highlands of Bolivia and Peru. In the late 19th century, the Chaco in Argentina…