Aproximaciones climáticas en la antigua ciudad de ibatín, siglos XVI y XVII, Tucumán, Argentina

Abstract

The city of Ibatín was the first city in the province of Tucumán; founded in the 16th century, it lasted on its founding site for about 120 years and then it was moved to the current city of San Miguel de Tucumán. This work seeks to propose a reconstruction of the climatic conditions of the site during its initial settlement through the use of information recovered from colonial documents and a brief geological analysis based on historical photographs. The analysis of the documents, mainly of Actas capitulares, revealed a variety of catastrophic events whose description revealed data of interest to catalog the climate of the ancient city.