COMODORO
RIVADAVIA: at the
end of the XIX century the agricultural producers of the area
had like base of operations a town among the lakes Musters and
Colhué Huapi, Colonia Sarmiento. With the idea of having
a port for where to take out their merchandises, in 1901 they
founded Comodoro Rivadavia.
Located
on the coast of the gulf San Jorge beside the hill Chenque and
crossed north to south by the national route #3. There the colonists
met with another quite delicate problem as the lack of water.
And from perforating looking for the vital liquid, in 1907 they
discovered petroleum. This fact obviously changed the course of
the history for the village then.
Today
the city has 130,000 inhabitants, but it was for some years the
most important city in the Patagonia. Starting from the beginnings
of the decade of 1920 Y.P.F. state company had a fundamental importance
in the development of the city. And because of receiving people
of different places of Argentina and the world that came to settle
and to work, it became a cosmopolitan city.
Comodoro
Rivadavia has 2 ports: the old one, very important for the development
of their economy until half-filled of the XX century that still
continues working, and the fishing port in Caleta Córdoba,
17 kilometers to the north, where the companies of the fishing
industry are.
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