sentences:  His mother was Dolores Goñi, descendant of Ruiz de Arellano, who founded the village of San Antonio de Areco in 1730.Manuel Güiraldes, his father, later "intendente" (governmentally appointed mayor) of Buenos Aires, was a cultured, educated man, interested in art.Ricardo inherited that predilection; in his youth he sketched rural scenes and painted in oils.