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Chubut (Spanish: Provincia del Chubut, IPA:; Welsh: Talaith Chubut Welsh pronunciation: [taˈlaɪθ ˈχɨbɨt]) is a province in southern Argentina, situated between the 42nd parallel south (the border with Río Negro Province), the 46th parallel south (bordering Santa Cruz Province), the Andes range to the west (bordering Chile), and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.
Escalante Department is a department of Chubut Province [1] in Argentina.. The provincial subdivision has a population of about 143,000 inhabitants in an area of 14,015 km², and its capital city is Comodoro Rivadavia.
A basketball team, Deportivo Puerto Madryn, plays in the Liga Nacional de Básquetbol (LNB). Their home arena is known as the Deportivo Puerto Madryn Arena. El Tehuelche Airport is located 10 km (6 miles) northwest of the city centre. Commercial flights from Buenos Aires, Ushuaia, and other Argentinian cities are available.
The first bridge over the Chubut in Rawson was built of wood in 1889 by the carpenter and Welsh-language poet Griffith Griffiths (1829–1909), who wrote under the bardic name Gutyn Ebrill and established the Patagonia Gorsedd of Bards. [9] [10] [11] This bridge was destroyed by a flood ten years later, and was replaced by an iron bridge in 1917.
Sarmiento is a town in the province of Chubut, Argentina.It has about 8,000 inhabitants as per the 2001 census [], and is the head town of the department of the same name.It is located on the so-called Central Corridor of Patagonia, in a fertile valley amidst an otherwise arid region, 140 km west from Comodoro Rivadavia, in the south of Chubut.
This is a list of cities and towns in the Argentine province of Chubut.. Aldea Apeleg; Cerro Cóndor; Comodoro Rivadavia; Dolavon; Esquel; Gaiman; José de San Martín; Lago Blanco; Lago Puelo
Trelew (Spanish pronunciation:, [1] from Welsh: tref "town" and the name of the founder, Lewis Jones) is a city in the eastern part of the Chubut Province of Argentina, 21km away from the coast. Located in Patagonia, the city is the largest and most populous in the low valley of the Chubut River, with 97,915
A replica of John Evans' Los Andes Flour Mill can be found today at the Nant Fach Museum, Trevelin, in an area known as Comarca de los Alerces. The decline of the flour milling industry in the area can be dated to 1949 when the government of Juan Perón declared that the Chubut region was not appropriate for the cultivation of wheat, and ...