Londres, Catamarca Londres, Catamarca Londres is a small tourist town in the Belén Department of Catamarca Province, Argentina. It is situated at above sea level alongside the "Ruta Nacional 40". It is at the foot of Shincal mountains, near the Quimivil river and is divided into two parts, "Upper" and "Lower." Londres was founded in 1558 and named Londres (Spanish for London) in honor of the fact that Philip II, King of Spain at time of its founding, was married to Mary Tudor (Mary I of England). The Church of the Immaculate Conception, National Historical Monument is in Londres. The ruins of
Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa never before been witnessed in this country, as one tribe was nearly always waging war against another." The net effect of the Dutch campaign was a "pax Hollandica" (Dutch peace), assuring VOC control in the southwest of the island. The Dutch called their new area of control the "Verenigde Dorpen" (United Villages), a deliberate allusion to the United Provinces of their homeland. The campaign was vital to the success and growth of the Dutch colony, which had operated as more of a trading post than a true colony until that point. In 1629, the third governor of Dutch Formosa, Pieter