Pioneers

The Welsh in Patagonia

This story deserves its own chapter. It was 1865, long before Argentina began to show serious intentions of conquering and colonizing the south, when a group of Welsh settled in the lands that today belong to the Province of Chubut....

The Gold fever in Patagonia

It is no secret that Patagonia shelters fantastic stories, extraordinary men, and almost impossible missions. Julio Popper and the search for gold is one of them. Julio Popper was a young Romanian, born into a Jewish family in Bucharest in...

Immigrants in Patagonia

The colonization method used by the Spanish was quite different from the one exerted in the United States, which was based upon rural colonization. In our country the model followed was one of urban colonization and, as a consequence, huge...

Welsh History Is Still Alive in Patagonia

There always is a pretext in order to submerge ourselves into the tradition of the welsh colonies in the south of Argentina, and the discovery of the remains of a 1850 ship is a more than sufficient reason to dedicate...