 Barranca Yaco

Barranca de Yaco or Barranca Yaco (from the Spanish "barranca" (gully) and the Quechua "yaku" (water)) is a geographical feature along the ancient "camino real" ("royal road") of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, located between Villa Tulumba and Sinsacate, in the province of Córdoba, Argentina.The place is famous because General Juan Facundo Quiroga, Governor and "caudillo" of La Rioja, was assassinated there by a party led by Santos Pérez, on 16 February 1835, during the Argentine Civil Wars.