El Barco (settlement)

El Barco was a short-lived Spanish settlement in what is now the Republic of Argentina, on the banks of the Dulce River.

The settlement was named in honor of La Gasca's hometown, El Barco de Ávila.

Nunez de Prado distributed land, appointed members to the council and ordered the construction of a fort to protect the settlement from the Calchaquís.

The site was poorly chosen, and the next year Núñez de Prado ordered it moved about a kilometer to the north.

In 1553 Francisco de Aguirre with a group of sixty well-armed men from Chile deposed Núñez de Prado and expelled him along with his deputy Juan Vázquez and the two Dominican friars who had accompanied him, fathers Gaspar Carvajal and Alonso Trueno.