Fundación de la ciudad de Buenos-Aires

This volume gathers a lively mix of nineteenth‑century scholarship and original papers that shed light on the early days of what would become Buenos Aires. The author opens with a pointed essay that separates myth from fact, pointing out how later legends about gods and heroes give way to the concrete records kept by colonial officials. Readers hear the voice of the first municipal clerk, Mateo Sánchez, as his 1594 testimony confirms a decisive gathering of officials on 11 June 1580, when Juan de Garay set out to rebuild the settlement.

Beyond the opening narrative, the book reproduces rare documents such as the complete repartimiento of indigenous labor and the early land allocations that survived in fragmented copies. These pages reveal the uneasy negotiation between Spanish conquerors and the Querandí peoples, whose communities were soon displaced. The accompanying commentary follows the heated debates of early Argentine historians, offering a clear picture of how a modest port town gradually claimed its place in history.