Battle of Salta Battle of Salta The Battle of Salta took place on February 20, 1813 on the plains of Castañares, north of the present-day Argentina city of Salta, during the Argentine War of Independence. The Army of the North, under the command of general Manuel Belgrano, defeated for the second time the royalist troops of general Pío de Tristán, after their victory in the previous September at the Battle of Tucumán. The unconditional surrender of the royalist troops ensured Argentine control over most of the northern territories of the former Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. Belgrano had taken advantage of
Cabo Corrientes, Chocó Cabo Corrientes, Chocó Cabo Corrientes is a cape on the Pacific coast of Colombia in the Chocó Department. Cabo Corrientes is at the southern end of the Gulf of Tribugá. The cape is about north of the Quebrada de Togoromá. The coast to the south has a chain of low barrier islands, less than high, behind which there are lagoons, mangrove swamps and a narrow belt of freshwater swamps. The cape divides the Esmeraldes-Pacific Colombia mangroves ecoregion into two large zones, one to the north and the other to the south. Cabo Corrientes is close to Nuquí, to the north,