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San Antonio, General Juan Facundo Quiroga

municipality in La Rioja Province, Argentina

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 18, 2024
Entity authorityQ3946723 ↗
Source-derived summary

San Antonio (General Juan Facundo Quiroga) is a municipality and village within the General Juan Facundo Quiroga Department of La Rioja Province in northwestern Argentina.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “San Antonio, General Juan Facundo Quiroga” as municipality in La Rioja Province, Argentina. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Antonio, General and Juan.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current 25-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Antonio, General and Juan providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “San Antonio, General Juan Facundo Quiroga”, the useful work is to connect “municipality in La Rioja Province, Argentina” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 18, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q3946723. Authority coordinates are -31.086, -66.733. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “San Antonio, General Juan Facundo Quiroga”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow San Antonio, General Juan Facundo Quiroga primary sources, San Antonio, General Juan Facundo Quiroga archive and Antonio research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “San Antonio, General Juan Facundo Quiroga”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “San Antonio, General Juan Facundo Quiroga” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.