In the fertile Andean valleys of rioja and Catamarca had lived since Inca times the powerful nation of the Calchaquies.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson
By the end of the sixteenth century the Spanish power was firmly established in settlements that have since become the Argentine provinces of Jujuy, Salta, Tucuman, Catamarca, Santiago, rioja, and Cordoba.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson
There had been an excellent bottle of rioja Blanca, such as you may have as good at some Spanish restaurant in New York for as little money; and the lunch, when reckoned up in English shillings and Spanish undertones, was not cheap.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells