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José Maria de los Reyes
An early 19th-century military engineer and observer, this writer is remembered for helping document an expedition across the southern frontier of Buenos Aires. His surviving work offers a close-up view of exploration, geography, and scientific observation in a formative period of regional history.
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Diario de la expedicion de 1822 a los campos del sud de Buenos Aires Desde Moron hasta la Sierra de la Ventana
by Pedro Andrés García, José Maria de los Reyes
About the author
Best known through bibliographic records rather than a widely documented personal biography, José Maria de los Reyes is associated with Diario de la expedición de 1822 a los campos del sud de Buenos-Aires. The work is credited to Pedro Andrés García together with José Maria de los Reyes, whose role is identified in library records as an engineering officer responsible for observations, descriptions, and other scientific tasks carried out during the expedition.
That makes his writing especially interesting: it sits at the meeting point of travel narrative, field report, and historical record. Readers coming to his work today will find not a modern literary profile, but a firsthand contribution to the documentation of territory, movement, and knowledge-making in the Río de la Plata region.
Because reliable biographical details about his life are limited in the sources available here, much of his legacy rests on this expedition account and the careful observational work attached to it.