Tall, mace-wielding farmers who pushed down from the Río Dulce into the plains north of the Córdoba sierras, ringing the salt-pan shore of Mar Chiquita with their villages.
Crushed in the conquest of the late 16th and 17th centuries and dissolved into the colonial peasantry; it was the Sanavirón who gave their sierra neighbours the name 'kamichingan' (cave-dweller), from which 'Comechingón' derives.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Sanavirón — the shape you scrub through changes in 1548 · 1650.
The standard reference on the mace-wielding Sanavirón farmers of the Río Dulce and Mar Chiquita and their dissolution in the conquest.
Background on the 16th-17th century conquest of the Córdoba plains that dissolved the Sanavirón (broad context).