Mercedario
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Mercedario
a mountain massif on the eastern slope of the Cordillera de los Andes in Argentina, near 32° S lat. Elevation, 6,770 m. It is composed of quartz porphyries and andesites. There is perennial snow above 5,000 m.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Los franciscanos y
mercedarios dieron mas problemas, en ambos casos relacionados con la tradicional pugna por el control de los conventos entre la mayoria de criollos y la minoria peninsular o entre las facciones de criollos de distinto origen, senal clara de que estas comunidades habian arraigado como una parte inherente del cuerpo social en el que estaban insertas mas que como unidades locales de una organizacion de caracter mas general o universal.
Taken from the work Codice Murua: Historia y genealogia de los reyes incas del Peru del padre
mercedario Fray Martin de Murua: codice Galvin (2004 [1590]).
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