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After the Spanish rule had been firmly established in the New World, the government, to hold the Indians, in cheek, constructed fortified posts, at certain distances, on the extreme limits of their possessions. These posts were called _presidios_, and were peopled by criminals of every degree of whom it was deemed prudent to clear the mother country. The _presidio_ of San Lucar, on the Rio Bermejo, was one of the first established.
At the epoch of the foundation of this _presidio_, the post consisted solely of a fort built on the north bank, on a steep cliff which commands the river, the plains to the south, and the surrounding country.