Rosas and Argentina
... This was due to several different and somewhat unique characteristics that were common to Argentina. In the most heavily populated area of Argentina, the Rio de la Plata, there was a small amount of settled native Indians, which, for the most part followed a nomadic lifestyle in an effort to survive. ... However, Argentina had several qualities, which would eventually lead to a promising successful colony. Argentina’s most impressive resource was the fertility and fabulous agricultural potential of its lands. Next to its fertile lands Argentina also had a promise in the great location of its primary port, that of Buenos Aires. ... Around 1810, Buenos Aires as a capital of an autonomous regime, which included Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia, was being questioned with regards to the reasoning behind it being the capital. ... At the end the man in power was Juan Manuel de Rosas, a caudillo and cattle rancher from the province of Buenos Aires who won the governship of his province in 1829.