Chubut Province
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Chubut is a province in southern Argentina, situated between the 42nd parallel south, the 46th parallel south, the Andes range to the west, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. The province's name deri
Villa Lago Rivadavia and the Andes
Argentine Geological Society founder Victorio Angelelli (second from right), c. 1950, whose study of Chubut's mineral wealth identified resources for economic development.
Government House at Rawson
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Y Wladfa
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Y Wladfa, also occasionally Y Wladychfa Gymreig, refers to the establishment of settlements by Welsh colonists and immigrants in the Argentine Patagonia, beginning in 1865, mainly along the coast of t
Chubut Province
…Madryn (97,625), Trelew (104,657), Esquel (36,624) and Sarmiento (13,892). Gaiman (6,376) is a cultural and demographic centre of the region known as Y Wladfa in which Welsh-Argentines are concentrated. Before the Spaniards arrived in the Americas, nomadic indigenous Tehuelche people had inhabited the Patagonia…
The Rev. Michael D. Jones (1822–1898)
Lewis Jones
The Mimosa.
Welsh traditions in Rawson