Comodoro Rivadavia
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| location | 45 ° 52 ′ S , 67 ° 30 ′ W | ||
| Height above d. M .: | 61 m | ||
| Population (2015): | 198,400 | ||
| Agglomeration : | Comodoro Rivadavia - Rada Tilly | ||
| - Population: | 145,000 | ||
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 Chubut
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| Department : | Escalante | ||
| Mayor: | Martín Buzzi, PJ | ||
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| Postal code : | U9000 | ||
| Comodoro Rivadavia's website | |||
Comodoro Rivadavia is an important port and industrial city on the Atlantic coast of the province of Chubut in southern Argentina . It is the capital of the Escalante department and with 177,038 inhabitants (2010, INDEC ) the largest city in the province. Comodoro Rivadavia is named after the naval officer and Argentine naval minister Martín Rivadavia (1852-1901), a grandson of the first Argentine president Bernardino Rivadavia .
location
The overall very spacious city is located in several side bays of the Golfo San Jorge , a gulf of the South Atlantic surrounded by mountains up to 600 meters high , as well as in some dry valleys in the area. North of the center directly by the sea is the Cerro Chenque , a 212 meter high, pyramid-shaped mountain that defines the cityscape. The highest mountain in the city - and the whole region - is the 615 meter high Pico Salamanca, located about 20 km north of the center.
The area belongs to the Patagonian steppe, which, however, unlike in the rest of the region, is heavily furrowed in this region, with numerous narrow valleys in which some agriculture is practiced.
climate
The overall climate is mild and temperate, but windy: an average of 19 ° C in summer and 7 ° C in winter. In stormy times, wind speeds of up to 250 km / h are often measured, which places special demands on the erection of tall buildings. The city is also called the "capital of the wind" among locals. With 300 millimeters there is a little more precipitation than on the Patagonian Meseta, rain falls mainly in the winter half-year, while the summer is very sunny.
history
Before the arrival of European immigrants, the region was the settlement area of the indigenous Tehuelche (own name Aonikenk ) and Mapuche , who still live in the area and cultivate their culture (weaving, silversmithing, music).
The city of Comodoro Rivadavia was founded in 1901 as the center of the sheep farming region in Central Patagonia. However, when oil was found in search of drinking water in 1907, the city began to grow rapidly. The German AEG group played a key role in setting up the electrical infrastructure. In the years 1926 to 1928 a power station was built and the state oil and gas fields were supplied with 10 KV lines (total length 40 km), which were laid in special designs due to the latent risk of explosion.
The oil production led to the settlement of numerous industries and internal migration , especially from the north-west of Argentina, but also from neighboring Chile , so that Comodoro Rivadavia today has a very mixed population. Between 1944 and 1955 Comodoro Rivadavia was the capital of the so-called Zona Militar de Comodoro Rivadavia , an administrative unit with a status comparable to the provinces, which was founded with the aim of protecting oil production from a possible foreign invasion during the Second World War and from the Provinces of Chubut and Santa Cruz had been split off.
On February 15, 1953, a serious railway accident occurred near Comodoro Rivadavia when a railcar derailed and fell down an embankment. 23 people died, 42 were also injured.
Since 1957 the city has been the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Comodoro Rivadavia . The episcopal church is the Cathedral of San Juan Bosco , which was completed in 1978.
Attractions
The city is architecturally modern and has no buildings that are particularly worth seeing. The museums are of interest, however: the Museo del Petroleo in the General Mosconi district is one of the most important in the world that deals with this topic. There is also the Museo Regional Patagónico , which deals with various aspects such as geography and history of Patagonia, the Museo Paleontológico with fossils from the region and the Museo de Bellas Artes with works of art by regional and national artists.
Education and culture
Comodoro Rivadavia is the headquarters of the most important university in Patagonia, the Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia San Juan Bosco , which has other branches in cities such as Trelew , Puerto Madryn and Esquel . The university is one of the centers of cultural activity in the city, another important institution is the largest theater, Teatro Centro . A number of independent small cultural centers complete the very active cultural scene. The nightlife is also active, four large discos and some music bars are partly open all week and often offer live music.
economy
The city is now one of the most important centers of Argentine oil production and has several industrial plants that process the crude oil. It is also the commercial metropolis for the entire south of Patagonia. Wind energy production is on the rise in the area; The largest wind farm in South America stands on the hills around the city, generating 15 percent of the electrical energy used in Comodoro.
All in all, Comodoro Rivadavia is a wealthy city in comparison to the inner-Argentinian population, wages are above average, the poverty rate in the agglomeration of Comodoro Rivadavia - Rada Tilly is significantly lower. This is largely due to a boom in the local oil economy due to high oil prices in the mid-2000s. However, because of the rather high rental costs in the center, numerous small slums have formed on the outskirts.
Sports
The most important football club in the city is CAI Comodoro Rivadavia , which is the only club from Patagonia to play in the second Argentine league (Nacional B). There are two car racing tracks - motor racing has a long tradition - and a horse racing track.
tourism
To the south is the glamorous beach resort of Rada Tilly, the southernmost fully developed seaside resort in the world, in a touristic bay. It is both a tourist destination and a dormitory of Comodoro Rivadavia; its permanent population is growing very rapidly and in 2010 was 9,100 inhabitants.
Town twinning
- Coyhaique , Chile
sons and daughters of the town
- Mario Alberto Santana , Argentine national soccer player
- Pablo Cesar Barrientos , Argentine soccer player
- Rodrigo Gardella , Argentine intellectual and writer
- Oscar Payaguala , singer / songwriter, folk singer
- Roque de Pedro , composer, pianist, musicologist and educator
- Sixto Raimundo Peralta Salso , Argentine soccer player
- Erardo Cristoforo Rautenberg (1953–2018), attorney general of the German state of Brandenburg and publicist
- Gisela Zoch-Westphal , German actress and reciter
Web links
- IFAM statistics data (Spanish)
- LiveArgentina.com - City information (Spanish)
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- ↑ a b REDATAM, database with the results of the 2010 and 2001 censuses, online access ( memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ El Chenque , Comodoro Rivadavia-portal
- ↑ https://www. britica.com/place/Comodoro-Rivadavia
- ↑ Electrotechnical facilities ... in Argentina . In: HELIOS Export Trade Journals of Electricity and Radio, Leipzig and Vienna, Volume 39, No. 25 of June 18, 1933, p. 198 digitized
- ^ Peter WB Semmens: Catastrophes on rails. A worldwide documentation. Transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71030-3 , p. 150.
- ↑ BBC on wind energy in Patagonia Spanish , English
- ↑ Payaguala website ( Memento of November 30, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
