Rawson, Chubut
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The city is named after Guillermo Rawson (1821–1890), Argentine Minister of the Interior, who supported the Welsh settlement in Argentina.Template:Sfnp
Rawson is located about Template:Cvt south of Buenos Aires, some Template:Cvt from Trelew, and it is served by the Almirante Marco Andrés Zar Airport in Trelew. It lies on both sides of the Chubut River.
The city has a fishing port, Puerto Rawson, on the Atlantic coast, Template:Cvt down the river.
History
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Rawson was the first town founded by the Welsh immigrants who sailed on the clipper Mimosa in 1865 to establish a national colony.[1]Template:Sfnp
At the time of founding remains of a mud-walled fortress existed on the site.Template:Sfnp[2] Settlers dwelled in the fortress various months while they explored the surroundings and built permanent houses.[2] It has been posited that the fort was built in 1853 by non-Indigenous hunters who entered the area to hunt feral cattle.Template:Sfnp The fortress was known by various names by the settlers. One name was Yr Hen Amddiffynfa meaning "Old Fortress",Template:Sfnp another was Caer Antur meaning "Fort Adventure".[2]Template:Sfnp Henry Libanus Jones had called it "Fuerte Paz" in his 1861 Explanatory notes on two maps of Patagonia.[2]
Between 1885 and 1890 many Italians settled in Rawson.Template:Sfnp Initially many Italians worked as railway navvies but in time many moved to work in trade.Template:Sfnp
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 Script error: No such module "Lang". and established the Patagonia Gorsedd of Bards.[3][4][5] This bridge was destroyed by a flood ten years later, and was replaced by an iron bridge in 1917. In 2001 a decision was made to rename the iron bridge as Script error: No such module "Lang". (poet's bridge) in honor of Griffiths. A plaque was installed at the bridge with information on Griffiths.[6]
Rawson was flooded in 1899 and 1901.Template:Sfnp While there had been floods before, these floods caused a partial depopulation of the town with many choosing to resettle in Trelew.Template:Sfnp Trelew was temporarily made capital of Chubut in 1903 as Rawson recovered from the floods. This fuelled a rivalry between the towns, which was further compounded by differences in their ethnic make-up as Rawson was more Catholic and had a higher proportion of Argentines, Italians and Spanish relative to Trelew.Template:Sfnp Rawson regained the capital status soon thereafter.Template:Sfnp
Climate
Rawson experiences a borderline cold desert (Köppen BWk)/cold semi-desert (BSk) climate with hot summers, cool winters and low precipitation year-round.
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Notable people
- Andrés Yllana, (born 1974), footballer
- Sergio Bastida, (born 1979), Argentine-born Bolivian footballer
- Gabriel Calderón, (born 1960), footballer and manager
- Rubén Ferrer, (born 1975), footballer
- Eduardo Sepúlveda, (born 1991), cyclist
- Cristian Tula, (born 1978), footballer
Twinned towns
- Template:Flagicon Blaenau Ffestiniog in Wales, United Kingdom[7]
References
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- Municipal information: Municipal Affairs Federal Institute (IFAM), Municipal Affairs Secretariat, Ministry of Interior, Argentina. Template:In lang
- Attribution
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External links
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