Bandera Bajada

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Bandera Bajada
Basic data
location 27 ° 14 ′  S , 63 ° 31 ′  W Coordinates: 27 ° 14 ′  S , 63 ° 31 ′  W
Population (2001): 980
  (Argentina)
 
 
administration
Province : Santiago del EsteroSantiago del Estero Santiago del Estero
Department : Figueroa
Mayor: Dionisio Salto
Others
Postal code : G4301
Telephone code: 03855

Bandera Bajada is a place in the center of the Argentine province of Santiago del Estero . With 980 inhabitants (2001) it is the second largest municipality in the Figueroa department .

geography

Bandera Bajada is located on a plain that belongs to the southern part of the Gran Chaco and north of the valley of the Río Dulce . The climate is subtropical with hot, humid summers and moderately warm, dry winters.

history

In the early 2000s there was a serious conflict between large landowners and smallholders in the village. A group of smallholders had filed a complaint that their lands had been unjustifiably fenced in and that they had also been terrorized by armed employees of the large landowners. According to a report in the newspaper Página / 12 , the provincial political elite were involved in the conflict and supported the landowners in the land grab.

In February 2007 the entire village was flooded after heavy rains.

Economy and Infrastructure

The place lives mainly from cotton cultivation. It is connected to the Argentine road network by the Ruta Provincial 100 .

health

Bandera Bajada has a hospital. 40.92% of the population have health insurance.

Culture and sights

education

There is a primary school ( Escuela N. 1040 ) and a larger agricultural technical secondary school, the Colegio Agrotécnico No. 7 Leandro Vicente Taboada , in which foreign students are also enrolled.

Meaning for the Argentine Quechua

The place belongs to an area in Santiago del Estero, in which the Argentine Quechua is spoken in addition to Spanish . Most of the population is bilingual.

Bandera Bajada is, besides the smaller Juanillo in the south of the province, the only place in Argentina where the endangered Argentine Quechua is taught in schools; this dialect is largely restricted to the province of Santiago del Estero. The Vicente Taboada School was supported at times by academics from the universities in the surrounding cities. In 2001, students from this school created what was then the first website on literature and traditions in the local Quechua dialect; this was honored in 2003 by the Quechua research company ADILQ .

media

In Bandera Bajada there is a radio station, FM Creativa .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Los campesinos y el derecho a la tierra , Página / 12, May 4, 2005.
  2. ↑ Santiago del Estero: un pueblo y su cementerio están bajo el agua , Clarín, February 3, 2007
  3. ↑ Data from Bandera Bajada ( Memento from June 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Argentine Ministry of the Interior
  4. ↑ Héctor A. (2008) Andreani, Experiencias y desafíos con el quichua y los chicos en Santiago del Estero , in: IX Jornadas Regionales de Investigación en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad Nacional de San Salvador de Jujuy, Facultad de Humanidades, 14 al 16 de Mayo, San Salvador de Jujuy, Argentina, Link
  5. ↑ Roxana Acosta, Diego del Castillo, Neibut Torres, Germán Yñiguez: Literatura Quichua Santiagueña ( Memento from June 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Tema y criterios para el premio Betinho de APC 2003 ( Memento from July 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, Spanish)

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