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The colonial Argentina is the period of the History of Argentina when it was an overseas colony of the Spanish Empire. It follows the precolumbian age of the indigenous peoples of Argentina, with the arrival of the first Spanish conquerors in the XVI century, and ends in the XIX century with the begin of the Argentine War of Independence.
The first navigators, aware that the Americas was an unknown continent, navigated into the wide Río de la Plata expecting to find a passage to the west and reach Asia, new navigations were fostered by the rumors of silver sources (such rumors are one of the early reasons of the name of Argentina). There were land expeditions coming from the north as well, from Lima. However, the lack of precious metals in the area, and the absence of local empires like the Aztects in Mexico or the Incas in Peru, did not allow a notable growth of the Spanish populations in the area. The area was a Southern section of the Viceroyalty of Peru, until the king Charles III rearranged it as the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.
The new ideas of the Age of Enlightenment and the events of the Peninsular War started the Argentine Wars of Independence, a theater of the greater Spanish American wars of independence.
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