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16 unusual facts about Patagonia


Acaena sericea

Acaena sericea is a species of low growing perennial plant native to southern Chile and Patagonia.

Alunite

In the United States it is found in the San Juan district of Colorado; Goldfield, Nevada; the ghost town of Alunite, Utah near Marysvale; and Red Mountain near Patagonia, Arizona.

Common galaxias

Common galaxias are one of the most widely distributed freshwater fish in the world and can be found around throughout New Zealand; in coastal streams in south eastern Australia, Tasmania and some parts of south west Western Australia; in Chile (From 35°S to 55S°), Patagonia, Argentina; in the Falkland Islands; and, in some Pacific Islands such as New Caledonia.

Côr Godre'r Aran

Their recent overseas trip saw them return to the Welsh regions of Patagonia, Argentina for a three-week tour in November, 2007.

Corriedale

The Corriedale is internationally farmed, in Australia, New Zealand, the United States of America and Patagonia (it being one of the most popular sheep breeds in Uruguay).

Diptera of Patagonia and South Chile

The books details the Diptera collected primarily by the museum's expeditions to Patagonia in 1926, sometimes with notes of some later collections and material held in other collections.

Gary Paul Nabhan

He is currently married to Dr Laurie Monti (formerly of Northern Arizona University) and lives near Patagonia, Arizona on a 5.5 acre homestead to the south-west of the town.

He founded the Forgotten Pollinators Campaign, the Migratory Pollinators Conservation Initiative, and attempts to restore nectar corridors for pollinators in bi-national watersheds around his home in Patagonia, Arizona, which he calls the "pollinator diversity capitol of the United States."

Gianfelice Rocca

A keen yachtsman and mountaineer, in 1970 Rocca took part in the expedition organized by the “Ragni di Lecco” mountaineering group to explore the Cerro Torre in Patagonia, regarded as one the world’s most inaccessible peaks.

Hemigrapsus

The natural range of the genus is restricted to the Pacific Ocean, except for Hemigrapsus affinis which lives along the Atlantic coasts of South America, from Cape São Roque (Rio Grande do Norte state, Brazil) to the San Matías Gulf, (Patagonia, Argentina).

National Parks of Argentina

This formed the nucleus of a larger protected area in Patagonia around San Carlos de Bariloche.

Nogales International

The Nogales International reports on issues affecting residents of Santa Cruz County, Arizona, including Nogales, Rio Rico, Tumacacori, Tubac, Amado, Patagonia, Sonoita and Elgin.

Odell Borg

Odell Borg, of Native American (Ojibwe) and German heritage, currently living in Patagonia, Arizona, is a Native American flutist and flute maker.

Riesco Island

The narrow Fitzroy Channel connects both bodies of water and separates the island from mainland Patagonia.

Trichomycterus

Species of Trichomycterus inhabit a diversity of habitats throughout South and Central America from Costa Rica in the north to Patagonia in the south, and from lowland Atlantic rainforest in the east to Andean streams in the west.

Welsh Tract

A more successful attempt at setting up a Gwladfa (Welsh-speaking colony) occurred two centuries later, in the Chubut Province of Patagonia, Argentina.


Aguja Saint Exupery

The mountain is named in memory of Antoine de Saint Exupéry, the French writer and aviator who was director of the Aeroposta Argentina airline and pioneered postal flights in the Patagonia region between 1929 and 1931.

Alto Valle thermal power plant

The Alto Valle Thermal Central is a thermal power station located in the city of Neuquén, Argentina (northwestern Patagonia, Comahue region).

Boroano people

The Boroanos, Borogas o Boroganos (also spelled with v) where a group of Mapuches native to the aillarehue of Boroa in Araucanía that got involved in several conflicts in the northern Patagonian pampas supporting figures such as José Miguel Carrera, the Pincheira brothers and Manuel Rosas.

Chinchillidae

Plains viscachas are found in the plains of Argentina, from the Gran Chaco area southwards to Patagonia.

Corcovado Volcano

180 Degrees South: Conquerors of the Useless - a 2010 documentary directed by Chris Malloy that covers the journey of Jeff Johnson as he travels from Ventura, California to Patagonia, Chile to attempt to summit Corcovado.

Early life of Néstor Kirchner

His great-grandparents had moved from Interlaken to Patagonia by the end of the 19th-century, during the big waves of immigration at that time.

As a student, he was very politically active, but left the city and returned to the Patagonia at the start of the Dirty War.

Francisco Moreno

He established the Scouting and Guiding in Argentina, the Argentine Boy Scouts Association in 1912, and joined former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in a tour of Patagonia.

Ghosts in Spanish-speaking cultures

In a dwelling in Neuquén in the Patagonia region of Argentina, there are sudden strange fires that the fire department is unable to explain, and in which some have seen ghost appearances.

Giovanni Roncagli

Roncagli was the hydrographer for the Italian expedition to explore Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego of 1881–1882, led by Giacomo Bove.

Gondwanatherium

The species Gondwanatherium patagonicum was discovered in Los Alamitos Formation, Río Negro Province, Patagonia, Argentina in deposits dating to the Upper Cretaceous period.

In Patagonia

In 1972, Chatwin interviewed the 93-year-old architect and designer Eileen Gray in her Paris salon, where he noticed a map of the area of South America called Patagonia which she had painted.

Jones Parry

Sir Love Jones-Parry, 1st Baronet (1832-1891), Welsh politician and a founder of Patagonia

Lafuma

They also offer a wide variety of other equipment, earning comparisons to United States based companies such as Patagonia and Columbia Sportswear.

Languages of South America

Welsh remains spoken and written in the historic towns of Trelew and Rawson in the Argentine Patagonia.

Matevž Lenarčič

He has climbed all over the world and among others reached the top of 8051m Broad Peak in Himalaya and climbed extreme routes in Patagonia, like Fitz Roy.

MV Patagonia Star

Patagonia Star was the name of two ships of the Blue Star Line.

Nemegtosauridae

Apesteguia, S., 2004, "Bonitasaura salgadoi Gen. et sp. nov.: A beaked sauropod from The Late Cretaceous of Patagonia." Naturwissenschaften, v. 91, n.

Nikki McClure

McClure allows non-profits to use her work with permission and has created works for Patagonia and Slow Food Nation.

Norma Fontenla

Fontenla, Neglia and seven other members of the ballet company boarded a flight at Jorge Newbery Airfield on October 10, 1971, en route to Trelew, a city in Patagonia where they were scheduled to perform.

Ona language

Part of the Chonan language family of Patagonia, Selk'nam is now extinct, due both to the late 19th-century Selknam Genocide by European immigrants, high fatalities due to disease, and disruption of traditional society.

Packraft

Packrafts have also been used in Mexico, Southeast Asia, Australia (including its Franklin River), New Zealand, Patagonia, and tropical South America.

Patagonian International Marathon

The Huemul, also known as the South Andean deer, is, among other areas, found in Chilean Patagonia, where NIGSA is based.

Polar city

High-population-density cities, to be built near the Arctic Rim and in Antarctica, New Zealand, Tasmania, and Patagonia, with sustainable energy and transportation infrastructure, will require substantial nearby agriculture.

Prehispanic history of Chile

On the Pacific coast, different cultures and peoples coexisted: the Aymara, Chango, Chinchorro, Atacama, Diaguita in the north: the Picunche, Mapuche, Huilliche, Chono in the Central and Southern region; and the Ona, Yagan and Alakaluf in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.

Rebellion in Patagonia

It was written by Olivera with Osvaldo Bayer and Fernando Ayala, based on Osvaldo Bayer's renowned novel Los Vengadores de la Patagonia Trágica ("The Avengers of Tragic Patagonia"), which was based upon the military suppression of anarchist union movements in Santa Cruz Province in the early 1920s.

Santiago Roth

Roth extended his range of paleontological expeditions to Patagonia, including the areas along the Rio Negro, Limay River and Chubut River, partly together with F. Machon, another researcher from Switzerland from 1885 to 1891.

Sir Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet

In 1900 Pearson despatched the explorer and adventurer Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard to Patagonia to investigate dramatic reports of a giant hairy mammal inhabiting the forests, and conjectured to be a giant ground sloth, long since extinct.

The Bugaboos

Fred Beckey and Yvon Chouinard (founder of the Patagonia clothing company) established new routes on several spires.

The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World

They base themselves in Torres del Paine National Park in Chilean Patagonia, home to the highest density of pumas in the world.

Trelew

Trelew's foundation is linked with Welsh settlement in Argentina, the leaders of which were Captain Sir Love Jones-Parry of Madryn and Lewis (Luis) Jones, who acted as spokesmen to deal with the Argentine government in the beginning of the 1860s.

Yerba mate

In the tiny hamlet of Groot Marico in the northwest province, mate was introduced to the local tourism office by the returning descendants of the Boers, who in 1902 had emigrated to Patagonia in Argentina after losing the Anglo Boer War.