page_title: Santos Vega
hierarchical_section_title: Santos Vega
caption_attribution_description: English: Cover to Santos Vega, a gauchesco poem by Rafael Obligado. Edited by the Sociedad Amigos de Rafael Obligado, in Buenos Aires.
context_page_description: Santos Vega was an Argentine gaucho, and invincible payador, who was only defeated by the Devil himself, disguised as the payador Juan sin Ropa.
  The myth states he is buried near San Clemente del Tuyú.
  President Bartolomé Mitre was the first to compose a poem based on the legend. Afterwards, Hilario Ascasubi wrote "Santos Vega o los Mellizos de la Flor", a long poem in which the minstrel narrates the events. Soon after, Eduardo Gutiérrez published the "Story of Santos Vega and his friend Carmona prosecuted by justice" as a feuilleton. Finally, Rafael Obligado, inspired on Gutiérrez's work, composed his best poem "Santos Vega", one of the top works of Argentine literature.
  A 1936 film Santos Vega was released.
context_section_description: Santos Vega was an Argentine gaucho, and invincible payador (a kind of minstrel that competed in singing competitions resembling dialectic discussions), who was only defeated by the Devil himself, disguised as the payador Juan sin Ropa ("John Clothless").
  The myth states he is buried near San Clemente del Tuyú.
  President Bartolomé Mitre was the first to compose a poem based on the legend. Afterwards, Hilario Ascasubi wrote "Santos Vega o los Mellizos de la Flor", a long poem in which the minstrel narrates the events. Soon after, Eduardo Gutiérrez published the "Story of Santos Vega and his friend Carmona prosecuted by justice" as a feuilleton. Finally, Rafael Obligado, inspired on Gutiérrez's work, composed his best poem "Santos Vega", one of the top works of Argentine literature.
  A 1936 film Santos Vega was released.
caption: Cover to Santos Vega, by Rafael Obligado. 1937 edition.
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