History
The settlement of this area goes back to the first centuries of the first millennium, with the settlement of the communityUllum-Zonda(descendants of those Indians Huarpes), which was characterized by the practice in agriculture and in ceramics.
Upon arrival of the Spaniards and after the founding of San Juan de la Frontera, these lands were not immediately populated by the conquerors, but when it was the figure of the Huarpes, began to disappear.
The former owners were 'Cornelius Albarracín (maternal grandfather Domingo Faustino Sarmiento) and 'Matias Sanchez de Loria (ascendant by maternal line Narciso de Francisco Laprida), which were devoted to the planting of the at and olive.
The valley also Zonda contituyó step forced on the path towards Chile and Calingasta. For a long time, Zonda and had no life of its own because of its population scattered, formed part of the same department along with Marquisate and Ullum. After the founding of the town of Marquisate by the brothers Echezarreta, in the late nineteenth century, the Quebrada de Zonda became the traditional place of sanjuaninos summer.
The independent life of the department began in the twentieth century, when legislation for 1935 is separated from the municipality of Rivadavia. It had to wait until 1942, when the Organic Act municipal September 4 set definite limits. His header Basil Nievas villa in a small downtown that reminds one of the first settlers
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