His family relocated to Buenos Aires, and Coria eventually settled into a post as a tax collector for the city.

His most celebrated creation, however, became a reminiscence of his days in La Rioja, and of a torrid love affair with a pretty young pianist who was forced to leave him after she became pregnant: Caminito - the "Little Path.

Following this disappointment, he relocated to Chilecito, a valley town situated high in the Andes mountains in La Rioja Province.

[1] Caminito, for its part, helped inspire Benito Quinquela Martín's restoration of a derelict La Boca shortcut by the same name during the mid-1950s.

The restored, pedestrian street's designation by that name by Mayor Hernán Giralt in 1959 was not attended by Coria, however, who disapproved on the grounds that his lyrics referred to the La Rioja Province road, instead.