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caballería: cavalry

caballo : horse

cabestro : halter

cabeza : head

cacique : indian chief

café : coffee

calcularás : you will ponder

calor : heat

cambiado : changed

cambio : change; a cambio : in exchange

caminante : walker

camino : way

campestre : related to country

campos : countries, lands

capítulo : chapter

cara : face

carácter : character, temperament

cargas : load, cargos

cariño : fondness

cariñosa : affectionate

carretilla : wheelbarow

carro : cart

carta : letter

casa : house, home

caso : case

casualidad : chance

cautivos : captive

cazar : to hunt

caído en gracia : I liked him

cañadas : low lands, easy to flood

celaje : cloudscape

charqui : dried meat (word taken from inca language)

chasqui : messenger (word taken from inca language)

chifles : horns to carry water

cielo : sky

ciencias : sciences

cierto : true

cimientos : foundations

circunstancias : circumstances

cirujano : surgeon

citaba : he/I cited

civilización : civilization

clase : class

clave : key

clásica : classic/classical

cobarde : coward

colocadas : set

comer : to eat

cominitiva : delegation

comisión : delegation

como : as

cómo : how

compañero : fellow

componiéndoles : mending it

comprender : to understand

comprendió : he undestood

comunicado : told

comuniqué : I told

comérselas : eat them

con : with

conceptuaban : they regarded

confesaba : I/he/she confessed

confiados : confident

confianza : confidence

confieso : I confess

conjeturas : conjectures

conmigo : with me

conmueve : to be moved, his words moves

conocía : he/I knew

conseguimos : we achieved

consideraba : I/he considered

consistieron : they consisted

constantemente : constantly

consuma : consume

contacto : contact

contrastando : constrasting

conversación : conversation

conversar : to chat

corazón : heart

Córdoba : Province of Córdoba. City of Córdoba: capital of the province of the same name, it is an important city, founded some years before Buenos Aires, so it is more than four hundred years old. It has the oldest university in Argentina but during colony it provided only theological instruction.

coronel : colonel

corpulentos : hefty

corre : he/she/it runs

corren peligro : they are in danger

correría : bad activities

correspondiente : corresponding

corriendo : runing

cosa : thing

cosa de : aiming to, with the purpose of

costa : river side

costeándolo : going by the river side

costumbres : habits

creo : I belive

creía : I believed

creían : they believed

cristianismo : christianism

cristiano : christian

cruzamos : we crossed

cruzar : to cross

cría : raising

cuadras : stable

cuadro : picture

cualidades : virtues

cualquiera : anybody

cuando : when

cuántas : how many

cuentan : they say, count

cuentos : stories

Cuero : leather

cuerpo : body

cuidados : care, attention

cuidándolo : attending

cumbres : peaks

cumplido : kept the promise

cundió : it spreaded

curva : curve

cutáneas : related to skin

cuyos : which

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