Juan de Garay, the far-sighted Basque who founded Buenos Aires, was the patron, model, and hero of young Hernandarias, who followed him in his great expedition over the southern PAMPA.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson
The cattle of the open PAMPA gave him an unlimited supply of the best food, and his horses enabled him to procure it with a minimum of effort.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson
On all this visible earth there were no fences, and no trees excepting those which had been planted at the old estancia houses, and these being far apart the groves and plantations looked like small islands of trees, or mounds, blue in the distance, on the great plain or PAMPA.
"Far Away and Long Ago"
W. H. Hudson