Esquel
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| location | 42 ° 55 ′ S , 71 ° 19 ′ W | ||
| Height above d. M .: | 563 m | ||
| Population (2015): | 34,900 | ||
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 Chubut
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| Department : | Futaleufú | ||
| Mayor: | Rafael Williams, PJ | ||
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| Postal code : | U9200 | ||
| Telephone code: | 02945 | ||
| Esquel's website | |||
Esquel is a city in northwestern Chubut Province , Patagonia in Argentina . It has almost 29,000 inhabitants and is the capital of the Futaleufú department . The name comes from the Mapuche language and means burdock , which here is part of the local flora with the calafate ( Berberis buxifolia ) and other thorny shrubs.
founding
The founding of the city is closely related to the Welsh immigration to Chubut in 1865. It was built on February 25, 1906 as an extension of the settlement Colonia 16 de Octubre , today Trevelin , which means "mill town" in Welsh ( Tre = "city" and Melin = "mill", M is changed to V).
location
The main city of the Andes region lies on the banks of the Esquel river and valley, surrounded by the La Zeta , La Cruz , Cerro 21 and La Hoya hills . Esquel is also known as a snow-sure ski resort with excellent quality snow that can be seen from July to mid-spring. The game and fish resources are also known.
climate
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La Trochita
Another important tourist attraction of the city is the narrow-gauge railway with a width of 750 mm, which runs regularly with steam locomotives from German ( Henschel & Sohn GmbH , Cassel ) and American ( The Baldwin Locomotive Works , Philadelphia ) as well as Belgian ( Societe Anonyme Ateliers de Construction de et a Famillieureux ) has been driving wagons two to three times a week for tourist purposes since 1922 until now (2005). The tracks are between Esquel - Nahuel Pan and El Maiten - Leleque Museum. The train is locally called La Trochita and in English The Old Patagonian Express after the book of the same name by Paul Theroux . The boilers of the locomotives have been heated with heavy kerosene since 1922, currently with a mixture of heating oil and waste oil from ship engines in a ratio of 1: 5, maintained in the El Maiten factory and repaired with spare parts made here according to the original plans.
Surroundings
Esquel is the closest town to the Los Alerces National Park , which is 70 kilometers away and, according to official figures, recorded the largest growth in the region in 2010 with 32,000 inhabitants.
sons and daughters of the town
- Aldo Duscher , Argentine soccer player with an Austrian passport
Web links
- IFAM population data (Spanish)
- Portal Esquel (Spanish and English)
- Esquel Online - Tourist Information (Spanish)
- LiveArgentina.com - City information (Spanish)