Casimiro Biguá

Casimiro Biguá was a 19th-century Tehuelche cacique in Patagonia.

He opposed the Chilean colonization of the Strait of Magellan and in the 1860s he entered an alliance with Argentine authorities.

In a bid to establish Argentine sovereignty over the strait Argentine "ad-hoc agent" Luis Piedra Buena brought Biguá to Buenos Aires where met President Bartolomé Mitre and was declared lieutenant colonel of the Argentine Army and granted a salary accordingly.

[2] The influence of Casimiro Biguá in political affairs declined in the late 1860s.

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