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José Maria de los Reyes
A 19th-century military engineer and geographer, he is remembered for recording expeditions across the southern plains of Buenos Aires and helping map a changing region. His writings blend observation, travel narrative, and scientific curiosity.
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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
Born in Córdoba del Tucumán on May 3, 1803, he became a military officer, engineer, and geographer whose work connected Argentina and the Banda Oriental, later Uruguay. He spent much of his career in surveying, mapping, and military service during a turbulent period in the region.
He is especially associated with the 1822 expedition to the southern countryside of Buenos Aires, where he carried out observations and scientific work that were later published as part of the expedition diary. That record has endured as a valuable firsthand account of the landscape, travel conditions, and frontier life of the time.
He died in Montevideo on August 5, 1864. Today he is remembered less as a literary celebrity than as a careful observer whose surviving work offers readers a vivid window into early 19th-century South America.