Qualla: Lobos https://qualla.com/lobos en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/t/z/lobos-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Lobos https://qualla.com/lobos Lobos: Introduction https://qualla.com/lobos/ Photo credit Dario Alpern, CC BY-SA 4.0. In October 1953, Juan Domingo Perón - three times president of Argentina, the most powerful man in the country - traveled out to a quiet farming town a hundred kilometers from Buenos Aires and stood in front of a small house on a residential street. He had been born there in 1895 and had lived in it only until the age of five. Now he opened it as a museum. There is something disarming about a leader of such reach returning to so plain a beginning, and the town of Lobos has guarded that beginning ever since, the way a family guards an old photograph.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/t/z/lobos-wp/69tz-lobos-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Lobos: The House on Perón Street https://qualla.com/lobos/ Photo credit Dario Alpern, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Casa Natal de Juan Domingo Perón still stands at the address that now bears his name, its rooms filled with photographs, documents, furniture, and personal belongings of the Perón family. In the patio grows a fig tree planted around 1890, declared a Historic Tree of Buenos Ai...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/t/z/lobos-wp/69tz-lobos-the-house-on-per-n-street.mp3 0:06 2 full Lobos: A Town Named for Wolves That Were Not https://qualla.com/lobos/ Photo credit Dario Alpern, CC BY-SA 4.0. The name Lobos means 'wolves,' but no wolves ever roamed here. A 1772 map printed in London, drawn from the notes of a Jesuit explorer named Falkner, labeled the local lagoon Laguna de Lobos. The most repeated explanation is that early settlers saw river otters - lobos de agua, '...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/t/z/lobos-wp/69tz-lobos-a-town-named-for-wolves-that-were-not.mp3 0:06 3 full Lobos: Where a Gaucho Met His End https://qualla.com/lobos/ Photo credit Dario Alpern, CC BY-SA 4.0. Lobos carries another, darker piece of Argentine memory. In 1874 the gaucho Juan Moreira died here, run down by the police after a life on the wrong side of the law. Moreira was a real man, but he became something larger - a folk hero of the pampas, the outlaw-gaucho immortalized...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/t/z/lobos-wp/69tz-lobos-where-a-gaucho-met-his-end.mp3 0:06 4 full Lobos: The Lagoon and the Living Town https://qualla.com/lobos/ Photo credit Dario Alpern, CC BY-SA 4.0. Life in Lobos still revolves around land and water. This is rich dairy country, its fields planted in wheat, maize, and soybeans, its hives producing a large share of Argentina's honey. Fifteen kilometers from town spreads the Laguna de Lobos, eight square kilometers of reed-frin...

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