Quilmes people

The Quilmes people, also known as Kilmes, were an indigenous tribe of the Diaguita group settled in the western subandean valleys of today's Tucumán province, in northwestern Argentina.

One of the most important archaeological locations in Argentina, the ruins were discovered by ethnographer and historian Samuel Alejandro Lafone Quevedo in 1888 and restored in 1978.

[citation needed] When the Calchaquí Wars ended survived about 2,000 people (1665), which were taken prisoners and deported to a reservation located near Buenos Aires.

William Beresford found a ghost town when he visited the reservation during the first British invasion of the River Plate in 1806.

[1] The government officially declared the ethnic group extinct on February 12, 1812 (but admitting that there are mestizo families)[4] and the reservation was finally closed on August 14, 1812.