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The Best Attractions In Dique Florentino Ameghino

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Florentino Ameghino Dam

Museo Casa del Poeta

Museo Historico Regional de Gaiman

Museo Antropologico

Museo Primera Casa de Gaiman

Compania Mercantil de Chubut

The Florentino Ameghino Dam is a gravity dam in Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina, 140 kilometres west of the city of Trelew. The dam also protects the towns in the lower Chubut River valley from flooding. The Florentino Ameghino is located on the Chubut River, which originates from snowmelt in the Andes. Work began on the dam in 1943, led by the engineer Antonio Pronsato; the dam was inaugurated in 1963. The dam has two Francis turbines of 23.4 megawatts each. The dam is currently operated by Hidroeléctrica Ameghino. Adjacent to the dam is a town with approximately 200 residents called Villa Dique Florentino Ameghino. The dam takes its name from ...
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The Best Attractions In Dique Florentino Ameghino

1. Florentino Ameghino Dam Dique Florentino Ameghino
Florentino Ameghino was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist, whose fossil discoveries on the Argentine Pampas, especially on Patagonia, rank with those made in the western United States during the late 19th century. Along with his two brothers –Carlos and Juan– Florentino Ameghino was one of the most important founding figures in South American paleontology. From 1887 until his death, Ameghino was passionately devoted to the study of fossil mammals from Patagonia, with the valuable support of his brother Carlos Ameghino who, between 1887 and 1902, made 14 trips to that region, where he discovered and collected numerous fossil faunas and made important stratigraphic observations which helped to support his journal Ameghiniana.
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2. Museo Historico Regional de Gaiman Gaiman
3. Circuito Historico Peatonal Gaiman
4. Museo Primera Casa de Gaiman Gaiman
5. Museo Casa del Poeta Gaiman
6. Museo Antropologico Gaiman
7. Compania Mercantil de Chubut Dolavon

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Cidades: Trelew (Chubut - Argentina)

Passeio rápido pela cidade de Rawson, Província de Chubut, Argentina.

Trelew é uma cidade do vale inferior do rio Chubut, no Departamento de Rawson, no nordeste da província de Chubut, na Patagônia, Argentina.

A cidade começou a ser formada em cerca de 1886 pelos colonos galeses no final do século XIX. Seu nome significa vilarejo de Luis, em referência a Lewis Jones, um dos primeiros colonizadores vindos do País de Gales.

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