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| History of Comodoro Rivadavia |
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The national government decides to build a port in the Gulf San Jorge. With this end, in 1890 and 1892, the Commodore Martin Rivadavia studied bays and creeks of the Central Patagonia. This impelled even more to the made an effort residents of the Ideal Colony, later Sarmiento that looked for to go out to the sea with their production. Their pioneer, the Italian Francisco Pietrobelli, being guided with the English marine's cartography Fitz Roy, it arrived to the Atlantic coast and lifted a store, origin of the city, been founded in 1901.
In 1903 colonists boers arrived from Sudáfrica to Commodore Rivadavia, in groups directed by Conrado Johanes Neethline Visser. Excellent cattlemen, were integrated totally to the country, although they remember their traditions and they converge to the Reformed Church of Holland.
Hardened in the adversity and in the war, they built modern stays ovinas and they provided from foods to the incipient town. Although they received lands inside the immigration politics, they didn't have an enough promotion. Due to their birdcalls for drinkable water, the government began perforations. In July of 1907, the technical Humberto Beghín perforated a well and in December, with 543 meters deep, petroleum sprouted. They inform the government on the discovery. Immediately the president Figueroa Alcorta decrees the prohibition of mining belongings deprived in a wide radio.
The General Address of Exploitation of the Petroleum is born, then Fiscal Oil Locations. This oil nucleus will extend in the time toward the vast spaces of the Chubut and Santa Cruz. To the suffering workers of the first times, Bulgarian, Czechoslovakian, Spaniards, mining catamarqueños and riojanos happened.
In the decade of the 50, time tax-free customs officers to the south of the parallel one 42°, they were common the American cars. The competition formula arose «Hot Rod» of enormous popular adhesion in the Central Patagonia. |
Viajoporargentina - Información turística sobre la República Argentina
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