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Mysterious geographical explorations Colombia: Jose de San Martin

geographical exploration: Jose de San Martin



In its "Way of the Andes" Bartolomé Mitre was referring to road had to cross the liberator José de San Martín.

"The great Argentine-Chilean Andes, is accessible only by precise steps, called boqueteso portezuelos, of which the best known and relate to our history are: the center, and Los Patos Uspallata compared to Mendoza and San Juan, on the north, the pass of the Ramada and the passage of Come-Caballos, who set up communications in the Province of La Rioja Argentina Coquimbo and Copiapo, and finally to the south, the slab and Portillo, lead directly to the first valley of Talca, and that of
Maipú and the second capital of Chile. These roads cross, which peaks in the extension the axis of the main cord of the mountains rise between 3,000 and 3,700 meters, obstrúyense with the snows of winter and only passable in the rigor of the summer. Until then, they had only been crossed by small military detachments of carriers with a mule caravans, along paths that could only pass a man on horseback. The passage of a large army of the three weapons through its gorges, we considered impossible, and had never been or even projected, before St. Martin tried. Roll these cliffs artillery battle, Trasmonte successive summits with four or five thousand men, besides carry ammunition and weaponry parts, the food needed during the voyage, and the mules and horses with fodder for the transportation of personnel and equipment, and get re-concentrated in war to enemy territory semidouble defended by force, calculating the movements combined so to obtain a double victory was sought on the nature and the enemy, such was the difficult problem that had to solve the general and the Army of the Andes to invade Chile.

Citing the liberator who recounted their worst fears for the campaign "What keeps me awake is not the opposition that can make me the enemy, but through these vast mountains."

Patos Pass is the way used by the Army of the Andes in 1817, the heights that accompanied this tour vary from 1000 m to 4580 m.

Source: http://www.sanmartiniano.gov.ar/textos/parte2/files/pdf/Texto% 20054.pdf