Editing Pre-Columbian era (section)

=== Diaguita confederation ===
{{Main|Diaguita}}
[[File:Ruinas_Quilmes.jpg|thumb|The [[Ruins of Quilmes]] in [[Tucumán Province]], Argentina.]]
The Diaguita consisted of several distinct chiefdoms across the [[Argentine Northwest]]. The Diaguita culture emerged around 1000 CE after the replacement of the [[Las Ánimas complex]].<ref name="MCLpueblosdiaguitas">{{citation |title=Pueblos diaguitas |url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/602/w3-article-97190.html |work=Memoria chilena |access-date=30 January 2014 |publisher=[[Biblioteca Nacional de Chile]] |language=es}}</ref> The Diaguita resisted Spanish colonialism during the [[Calchaquí Wars]] until they were forced to surrender and submit to Spanish rule in 1667.<ref name="Lorandi1988">{{cite book |last=Lorandi |first=A.M.|author-link=Ana María Lorandi |title=La frontera del estado Inca |year=1988 |editor-last1=Dillehay |editor-first1=Tom |pages=197–214 |language=es |chapter=Los diaguitas y el tawantinsuyu: Una hipótesis de conflicto |editor-last2=Netherly |editor-first2=Patricia}}</ref>