This municipality located about 30 km from the city of Mendoza was created on May 14, 1858 by Cornelio Moyano. This region formerly belonging to the Huarpes aborigines, was named with the name of Tiasta.
In this area, the Jesuits built the Barrancas Chapel and the Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes de la Cruz de Piura Chapel, which in 1855 stopped working because it was already very old and deteriorated.
This region is artificially irrigated, like all the great oases of Mendoza, by ditches (irrigation channels through which the water that comes from the Andes flows and flows down the Mendoza River), created by the Incas and which is a work of engineering It covers 4,500 km throughout the province.
Maipú is one of the oldest wine regions in Mendoza and also where the first olive trees were planted, those that currently exist and that give rise to the production of olive oil and its products.