Carlos Moyano

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Carlos Moyano

Carlos María Moyano (born November 4, 1854 in Mendoza , † October 7, 1910 , in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine naval officer and topographer . As the first Argentine governor of the province of Santa Cruz , he secured the integration of southern Patagonia into the Argentine territory through topographical work to explore previously unknown areas, as well as through recruiting and settling colonists .

biography

Carlos María Moyano was born on November 4, 1854 in Mendoza, Argentina. At the age of 19 he entered the Navy with the rank of NCO. In 1876 he served as second officer on the schooner Santa Cruz.

In 1877 he took part in the Perito Moreno expedition as a cartographer and topographer , which explored the largely unknown Patagonia . In the following two years he took part in other exploration expeditions. In 1881 he presented the results of his widely acclaimed work at an international geography congress in Venice . After his return, he was appointed head of the Comisión Exploradora de la Patagonia and assigned on a secret mission to clear up the Argentine-Chilean border between Lake Nahuel-Huapi near Bariloche and Lake Argentino further south . The results of his topographical studies were later included in the Argentine exposition before the London Arbitration Court, before which the border dispute was heard between 1886 and 1902. In 1883 Moreno was accepted into the Society of the Argentine Sciences ( Sociedad Científica Argentina ).

Argentina and Chile had finally agreed in a border treaty in 1881 that Patagonia east of the Andes should belong to Argentina. Although the two countries could not initially agree on the exact course of the border, efforts immediately began to incorporate the previously undeveloped and largely unknown territories into the respective sovereign territory. The province of Santa Cruz was founded on October 16, 1884, with its administrative headquarters in Puerto Santa Cruz , and Moyano was installed as the first governor on November 25, 1884 by President Julio Argentino Roca . The bustling Moyano traveled to the British Falkland Islands in 1885 to recruit colonists there. On this occasion he met Ethel Turner, the niece of the local governor, whom he married in 1886.

In early 1887 Moyano was promoted to frigate captain. But a little later he abdicated for health reasons. In the following years he worked in the naval command in Buenos Aires and from 1893 to 1905 in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He died on October 7, 1910 in Buenos Aires. In 1970 his remains were reburied in a mausoleum in his honor in Puerto Santa Cruz.

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predecessor Office successor
Office newly established Governor of the Province of Santa Cruz
1884–1887 		Ramón Lista
personal data
SURNAME Moyano, Carlos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Moyano, Carlos María (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine naval officer, topographer, governor
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Mendoza
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1910
Place of death Buenos Aires