Conrado Villegas (February 3, 1841 – April 26, 1884) was an
Argentine general in the 1880s during the presidency of
Julio Argentino Roca
Alejo Julio Argentino Roca Paz (July 17, 1843 – October 19, 1914) was an army general and statesman who served as President of Argentina from 1880 to 1886 and from 1898 to 1904. Roca is the most important representative of the Generation ...
. He is famous for his campaigns in
Neuquén
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and
Río Negro during the
Conquest of the Desert
The Conquest of the Desert ( es, Conquista del desierto) was an Argentine military campaign directed mainly by General Julio Argentino Roca in the 1870s with the intention of establishing dominance over the Patagonian Desert, inhabited primar ...
to subdue the
indigenous
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*Indigenous peoples
*Indigenous (ecology), presence in a region as the result of only natural processes, with no human intervention
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population in the south of Argentina. The town of
General Villegas
General Villegas is a town in General Villegas Partido, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
UN/LOCODE
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, in the northwest of
Buenos Aires Province bears his name.
Argentine generals
Conquest of the Desert
1841 births
1884 deaths
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