General Manuel Belgrano Railway projects to run passenger services between La Quiaca and San Salvador de Jujuy, both cities in Jujuy Province. The main lines departed from Retiro station in Buenos Aires to the north through the provinces of Buenos Aires, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Santiago del Estero, Tucumán, Chaco, Formosa, Salta, Jujuy, San Luis, Mendoza, San Juan, La Rioja and Catamarca. In 1876, Ferrocarril Central Norte started services from Córdoba to Tucumán. It was the first metre gauge in Argentina, mainly due to economic reasons. It had been built by the Argentine State to expand Central Argentine Railway network (Rosario-Córdoba), a British-owned company by
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