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The name Querandí means "people with fat," and is the name the Guaraní indians gave to the group. This refers to the Querandí practice of eating pure animal fat. The Mapuche indians referred to the group as puelche, meaning "people of the east." The Querandi mainly occupied what is the modern day province of Buenos Aires. Being a nomadic people they journeyed across the modern day provinces of Santa Fe and Cordóba.

While the city of Buenos Aires was founded in 1535 by Pedro de Mendoza, the Querandi destroyed most of the city in 1537 while Mendoza was in Spain. It was rebuilt in 1542 and again destroyed in 1559. In 1580 the lieutenant of the Governor of Paraguay, Juan de Garay, returned to the site of the city and planted the Spanish flag. Then began the massacre of the Querandí and repopulation of the area with Guaraní.