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  CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Carmen de Patagones is the southernmost city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
In the 19th century, Carmen de Patagones had a fort, and after the May Revolution, it became a prison for royalists (Spaniards and pro-Spanish locals against the independentist movement).
The Brazilian troops attempted to take Carmen de Patagones, but they were repelled by the civilians on 7 March 1827; this date is still commemorated with a festival in the city.
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 Worldroots.com
De 1 a 15 años = 101 hombres y 91 mujeres
De 30 a 45 años = 50 hombres y 29 mujeres
De 75 a 90 años = 8 hombres y 4 mujeres.
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 Viedma and Carmen de Patagones Patagonia Argentina
Viedma and Carmen de Patagones - Patagonia Argentina
Carmen de Patagones in the north riverside belongs to the Buenos Aires province and Viedma in the south riverside is the capital of the Río Negro province.
Around 1779 a Spanish called Don Francisco de Viedma founded a fortification in the south margin of the Negro river that after few months, due to a grown of the river, he should move to the opposed bank where Carmen de Patagones arises.
www.patagonias.net /Cities/ViedmaPatagones.htm   (432 words)

  
 CARMEN DE PATAGONES AND VIEDMA, Carmen de Patagones and Viedma Tourist Information and Travel Guide at InfoHub.com
Patagones was the symbolic gateway to Patagonia from its founding in 1779 to at least the Campaign of the Desert a hundred years later, and you can spend a pleasant couple of hours exploring this legacy.
Founded by Francisco de Viedma, Patagones was the second of the strategic settlements created to fortify the Patagonian coast from the incursions of English and Portuguese pirates, and the only one to survive in the long term.
Patagones' finest hour came on March 7, 1827, during the fledgling Argentine Republic's war with Brazil over the Banda Oriental (present-day Uruguay), when a force of local militiamen outwitted a far superior force of Brazilian troops who tried to storm the town in reprisal for raids on Brazilian ships.
www.infohub.com /Destinations/South-America/Argentina/Carmen-de-Patagones-and-Viedma/85946.htm   (407 words)

  
  Carmen De Patagones and Viedma - Destination Guide - Hotel Near   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Patagones was the symbolic gateway to Patagonia from its founding in 1779 to at least the Campaign of the Desert a hundred years later, and you can spend a pleasant couple of hours exploring this legacy.
Founded by Francisco de Viedma, Patagones was the second of the strategic settlements created to fortify the Patagonian coast from the incursions of English and Portuguese pirates, and the only one to survive in the long term.
Patagones' finest hour came on March 7, 1827, during the fledgling Argentine Republic's war with Brazil over the Banda Oriental (present-day Uruguay), when a force of local militiamen outwitted a far superior force of Brazilian troops who tried to storm the town in reprisal for raids on Brazilian ships.
www.hotelnear.com /4758/4765/Argentina-Carmen_De_Patagones_and_Viedma.html   (403 words)

  
 Carmen de Patagones, PATAGONIA ARGENTINA
Carmen de Patagones, la ciudad más austral de la provincia de Buenos Aires, se encuentra a aproximadamente 920 km.
Este pueblo, situado frente a Viedma, es dueño de una belleza asombrosa y un encanto particular.
Antiguamente eran sede de los grandes almacenes de ramos generales y daban vida a este puerto, tan activo en otro tiempo.
www.patagonia-argentina.com /e/atlantica/viedma_patagones/viedma.htm   (538 words)

  
 Carmen de Patagones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Fundada en 1779, fue poblada entonces por colonizadores provenientes de Galicia, Asturias y León (Maragatos).
La torre del fuerte de Patagones, que data del siglo XVIII y es Monumento Histórico Nacional.
Entre las aves que se reunen allí son comunes de apreciar las características del pajonal y marinas: como ostreros, gaviotas, gaviotines y canasteras.
www.mapasargenguide.com.ar /argenguide/buenosaires/carmendepatagones.htm   (431 words)

  
 Viedma: History of the City and Legends from the area
Both Viedma, the capital of the province of Río Negro, and Carmen de Patagones in the province of Buenos Aires have a common origin, when the fort and village Nuestra Señora del Carmen were founded by don Francisco de Viedma y Narváez on 22nd April 1779.
As we have seen, Carmen de Patagones is older than Viedma, and has been a corsair port, and battle scenery.
This situation gave an important impulse to Patagones, since economic activities based in agriculture and livestock, commerce with Buenos Aires and foreign countries increased, and soon conditions improved due to a rise in the labor demand, what gave to the area an important mobility and a promissory future.
www.welcomeargentina.com /viedma/history.html   (927 words)

  
 Carmen de Patagones, PATAGONIA ARGENTINA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Carmen de Patagones, la ciudad más austral de la provincia de Buenos Aires, se encuentra a aproximadamente 920 km.
Este pueblo, situado frente a Viedma, es dueño de una belleza asombrosa y un encanto particular.
Antiguamente eran sede de los grandes almacenes de ramos generales y daban vida a este puerto, tan activo en otro tiempo.
www.todobuenosaires.com /e/atlantica/viedma_patagones/viedma.htm   (538 words)

  
 6DSanAntViedma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The Sud (or Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway as it tends to be known in Britain) reached Patagones in 1922 after a long delay at Stroeder.
Carmen de Patagones station, in rather a depressing state these days and currently served by no passenger services at all though there are periodic attempts to restart through trains to Bariloche from further north.
After a long interval therefore work restarted in the 1920s not merely to complete the western end of the line as far as San Carlos de Bariloche, but also to stretch back eastwards from San Antonio towards Viedma and the FC Sud which had reached Patagones on the other side of the Rio Negro.
www.railwaysofthefarsouth.co.uk /6dsanantviedma.html   (986 words)

  
 Carmen de Patagones queda cerca   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Solo llegaban las imágenes de hechos de semejante magnitud en escuelas de los EEUU y nos conformábamos con responsabilizar de los mismos a los problemas de una sociedad violenta como la del país del norte por su cultura armamentista y su delirio en aventuras guerreras.
Muertes de chicos, de adolescentes, de jóvenes, en manos de ellos mismos.
Carmen de Patagones está muy cerca, mucho mas de lo que parece por los mapas.
www.iparraguirre.org.ar /actuales/carmendepatagones.html   (275 words)

  
 Piedrabuena . Kopp Juan Jose   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
En 1858, al mando de la goleta (7) Nancy, abandonó Nueva York con rumbo a los mares australes, a fin de retomar la actividad de captura de cetáceos, lobos y elefantes marinos.
El 26 de agosto, a unos días de la muerte de su esposa, lo encontramos en Santa Cruz auxiliando a la tripulación de la barca noruega Cuba, que se hallaba refugiada en las ruinas de la grasería Rouquard, a los que posteriormente traslada a Buenos Aires.
De allí su barco pasa a estanco, a fin de efectuar reparaciones y preparar, al que se denominaría Buque Escuela de Marineros,corbeta Cabo de Hornos.
www.patagoniasuhistoria.com.ar /decimoquintapagina.htm   (3889 words)

  
 Buenos Aires Province
Carmen de Patagones on the riverside of Río Negro River
It is bounded by the provinces of Santa Fe, Córdoba and Entre Ríos, north; the Atlantic Ocean (Mar Argentino) and Río de la Plata, east; the province of Río Negro and the Atlantic Ocean (Mar Argentino), south; and the provinces of Río Negro, La Pampa and Córdoba, on the west.
It has an area of 307,571 square kilometers (8.2% of the country total) which, due to their altitude, are totally comprised in the Pampean region, with temperate climate.
www.argentour.com /buenosairesing.html   (617 words)

  
 Excursions from Viedma and Carmen de Patagones, PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA - (South America)
It was named after its last owner, doña Carlota Martínez de Ibáñez, a lady from a traditional Spanish family.
The cities of Viedma and Carmen de Patagones have a common a history, beginning with the fact the both were founded on the same day, the 22
The communication between both cities is done through two bridges, one is a railway bridge and the other one is exclusive for vehicles.
www.patagonia-argentina.com /i/atlantica/viedma_patagones/viedma.htm   (653 words)

  
 Travel to Viedma and Carmen de Patagones, PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA - (South America)
Viedma is a modern city unlike its neighbor, Patagones, that has very little remainders of its past.
Viedma is a modern administrative center, seat of the provincial government, and the oldest bishopric of the Argentine south.
Carmen de Patagones is smaller but more picturesque, with hilly streets full of history, and the cliffs by the river.
www.patagonia-argentina.com /i/atlantica/viedma_patagones/viedmapat.htm   (475 words)

  
 Mercopress
Waiting for the settlers were Lewis Jones, Edwyn Cynrig Roberts and about six "peons" brought from Carmen de Patagones who had helped with the raising of shacks and the building of a food depot on the site.
Lewis Jones had already made two voyages to New Bay from Patagones carrying sheep, food, tools and many other items on board the small Danish schooner Juno which was chartered in Buenos Aires for that purpose.
It was decided to raise a colony there, in an area about 500 km south of Carmen de Patagones which then was a small town and port on the Río Negro river´s north bank and the southernmost permanent outpost of the then Argentine Confederation.
www.falkland-malvinas.com /Detalle.asp?NUM=6140   (802 words)

  
 EL CASO CARMEN DE PATAGONES
La sociedad está compuesta por múltiples comunidades representando a distintos sectores de la misma, por ejemplo, las comunidades, de abogados, de artistas y otras.
Se intentó buscar las causas de esta tragedia solo en su familia, o en la escuela, o en la violencia de la sociedad o en la perturbación del muchacho desde una visión simplista del problema.
Más allá de las situaciones que atraviese cada familia siempre se debería buscar un espacio para compartir con los hijos, saber que piensan y que cosas viven y si se sospecha que nuestros hijos pueden tener un problema y pueden estar sufriendo buscar ayuda profesional.
www.claramente.com.ar /76/patagones.htm   (526 words)

  
 Blood and hell in Argentine high school - PRAVDA.Ru   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Carmen de Patagones is a small quite town in the South of the Buenos Aires province, some 1.000 kilometres from Argentine's capital.
Oporto flew to Carmen de Patagones to get the details of the tragedy and visit the six hospitalized.
Photo: The town of Carmen de Patagones, a small village in the South of the Buenos Aires' Province, Argentina.
english.pravda.ru /printed.html?news_id=14338   (348 words)

  
 Viedma: History of the City and Legends from the area
Both Viedma, the capital of the province of Río Negro, and Carmen de Patagones in the province of Buenos Aires have a common origin, when the fort and village Nuestra Señora del Carmen were founded by don Francisco de Viedma y Narváez on 22nd April 1779.
This situation gave an important impulse to Patagones, since economic activities based in agriculture and livestock, commerce with Buenos Aires and foreign countries increased, and soon conditions improved due to a rise in the labor demand, what gave to the area an important mobility and a promissory future.
Danger was confirmed: the water of the river raised its level on the coast of Viedma and Patagones.
www.welcomeargentina.com.ar /viedma/history.html   (927 words)

  
 Viedma, Argentinian Patagonia
Viedma is located 30 kilometers from the mouth of the plentiful Negro River, which separates it from its neighboring city: Carmen de Patagones.
The historical legacy it shares with Carmen de Patagones dates back to 1779, when the fort and settlement Nuestra Señora del Carmen were founded.
As a consequence of the floods that hit the area that year, the fort was moved to the North, thus giving origin to Carmen de Patagones.
www.interpatagonia.com /viedma/index_i.html   (361 words)

  
 Carmen de Patagones
A fines de 1810 la Junta de Mayo se hace cargo de la región de Patagones, pero dos años después (en abril de 1812) los realistas (grupo que no estaba de acuerdo con la Independencia) hacen que Patagones "dependa" nuevamente de la Corona Española.
A pesar de esto, para Patagones, la vinculación con los saladeros rioplatenses y el sur de Brasil, abre mercados a su producción agropecuaria, generando una expansión del área rural, una mejora en la economía y mayor complejidad social.
Este acuerdo posibilitó la expansión de las exploraciones río arriba.Paralelo a este proceso se dio una significativa expansión demográfica (es decir, la población aumentó, ocupó otros espacios y comenzó a parecerse más a una ciudad).
www.oni.escuelas.edu.ar /olimpi98/Histon@utaS/Comarca/Patagones/carmen.htm   (738 words)

  
 CARMEN DE PATAGONES
Patagones conforma una comarca con Viedma, Capital de la Provincia de Río negro, donde el río homónimo las une en una historia y una vida en común.
La zona de Riego, en tanto, está ubicada junto al Río colorado: abarca más de 50.000 hectáreas, tomando a Juan Pradere, Igarzábal y Villalonga, dedicados a la agricultura, especialmente de cebolla, morrón y ajo.
Esta denominacion posee un dobel significado Carmen de Patagones se debe a la patrona de la localidad, la virgen Nuestra Señora del Carmen y Patagones es una alusion a la tall y tamaño de los pies que se atribuia a los aborigenes de la región.
www.escribahia.org /patagon.htm   (956 words)

  
 Argentine school rampage kills four
Authorities provided no immediate motive for the attack but said they were questioning the student, who was arrested soon after the attack on the classroom in Carmen de Patagones, some 960 kilometres south of Buenos Aires.
Mario Oporto, education minister for vast Buenos Aires province that includes Carmen de Patagones, lamented the violence.
Reports of classroom violence have raised public concern in recent months and years even before the shooting, which is the worst on record.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-09/30/content_378910.htm   (358 words)

  
 Our own "small" Columbine - BeyondUnreal Forums
The shooting happened before the start of class at a school in Carmen de Patagones, 620 miles (1,000km) south of Buenos Aires.
Weeping classmates and relatives marched in procession to the cemetery in Carmen de Patagones, 620 miles (1,000km) south of Buenos Aires.
Business, shops and public offices were closed in Carmen de Patagones as the town mourned the three teenagers - two girls and a boy, aged 15 and 16.
forums.beyondunreal.com /showthread.php?t=146301   (1020 words)

  
 Peninsula Valdez, Patagonia
We stopped again for the evening along the Rio Negro River and the twin towns of Viedma and Carmen de Patagones.
The siesta time is a frustrating experience here and we find it difficult to believe that such an advanced country as Argentina would want to have its business close down for three to four hours every afternoon.
Carmen de Patagones is a small town to explore, but it has some nice colonial buildings and church.
www.questconnect.org /pat_journal_4.htm   (905 words)

  
 Patagonia (Central)
The Perito Moreno Glacier of Santa Cruz is a 60-meter-high (197-ft-high) river of rising, toppling and exploding ice, though it hasn't been advancing for several years.
Carmen de Patagones is a beautiful colonial city and there are unexpected vestiges of the area's previous Welsh inhabitants - in particular the town of Gaiman.
The history of the evolution of the earth left its footprints on this strip of land with particular formations that extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Andes.
www.pacificislandtravel.com /south_america/argentina/about_destin/centralpatagonia.html   (381 words)

  
 ENJOY PATAGONIA - Beaches in Patagonia
This "Beach Patagonia" or "Corridor of the Patagonian Beaches" as it is also called, begins south of Colorado River, in the Patagones district, in the south of Buenos Aires province.
If you take National Route Nº3, south of Bahía Blanca, 160 km from Patagones you reach Pedro Luro and opposite it, Fortín Mercedes a Catholic pilgrimage center, also called "Lilly of the Pampas", where Ceferino Namuncurá, currently in canonization process, is buried.
Viedma city is located right across from Patagones, separated only by Negro river and joined by two bridges and a passenger's boat service.
www.enjoy-patagonia.org /patagonia-patagonian-beaches.php   (1159 words)

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