GCWWWB Conquista Del Mundo - Argentina
Type: Traditional | Size: Micro | Difficulty: | Terrain:
By: skaven @ | Hide Date: 30/06/2006 | Status: Archived
Country: Canada | State: Manitoba
Coordinates: N49° 48.880 W97° 14.053 | Last updated: 10/06/2026 | Fav points: 0
 

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This micro cache is one of four caches guiding players to the "South Amerian Continent" cache as part of the Conquista Del Mundo Challenge. Visit the User's Web Page link at the top of the cache lisiting to obtain further details regarding the Conquista Del Mundo Challenge.

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First discovered by Amerigo Vespucci, a European, in 1502, Argentina quickly became the lynchpin in the Spanish empire's mercantilist system. Following the disintegration of the Spanish empire in the western hemisphere during the 1800s, Argentina declared independence, promulgating a constitution that espoused federalist ideals akin the system of government then in vogue in the United States. However, as with many of Argentina's South American neighbors, the country's politics quickly became fractious and unpredictable. Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, democratic rule alternated with pseudo-dictatorship. Numerous coups, led by the military, continually checked the advance of democratic ideals.

An assembly representing most of the viceroyalty met at San Miguel de Tucumán and on July 9, 1816 (Nueve de Julio), declared the country independent under the name of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata.

Several years of hard fighting followed before the Spanish royalists were defeated in northern Argentina. But they remained a threat from their base in Peru until it was liberated by José de San Martín and Simón Bolívar in 1820-24.

The Buenos Aires government tried to maintain the integrity of the old Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, but the outlying portions, never effectively controlled, soon were lost: Paraguay in 1814, Bolivia in 1825, and Uruguay in 1828. The remaining territory--what now constitutes modern Argentina--was frequently disunited until 1860.

With war threatening once again, who will emerge victorius?

The cache container is a typical micro container (35 mm film canister). Please note the number on the front page of the log book. You will need the name of the territory and the number to complete the coordinates for the "South Americian Continent Cache".

Bring your own writing stick.

26/10/2006 By Kabutroid
Actually took me a little bit to find this fella. Then again, despite the fact that it's a road that looks like it's used only by construction vehicles, I swear there must have been 50 cars that decided to go by between when I parked and when I started off again. Of course, now that I'm gone, that road will be unlikely to see a single 'nother car go by for the rest of the week .

In either case... my first kinda step into the area, I couldn't find a thing. Well... I found a shoe sitting in the ditch, but I somehow doubted that this was the cache. I was correct in this assumption, for shortly afterwards, I spied a little... something... that led me to the location of the cache. Two seconds after spying said aformentioned something, I found me some cache. Although, given the area, I'd think this would have been more suited to that "Egypt" cache that I thought was too foresty for Egypt .

Took: Nothing
Left: Logbook and micromaille ball