Trelew
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- For other uses, see Trelew (disambiguation).
Template:Placebox-begin Template:City-header-ar Template:Placebox-begin-data Template:City-poli-ar Template:Placebox-coor Template:Placebox-people Template:Placebox-phone-ar Template:Placebox-postal-code-ar Template:Placebox-end-data Template:Placebox-end Trelew is a city in the province of Chubut, in the Argentine Patagonia, with a population of about 89,000 as per the Template:Census-ar. The city has a small commercial center, several neighborhoods, and some villas miseria (shanty towns), in which the houses are made of tin metal or pressed cardboard. The living conditions in these villas are very harsh, because winters of −10 °C are common. As of 2005, unemployment is high and the city is losing population.
The Argentine Navy maritime patrol aircraft P-3 Orion are based at the Base Aeronaval Almirante Zar near Trelew, from where they survey the long Atlantic coast.
History
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 at the beginning in the 1860s.
Trelew was established in 1886 as head station for the railway track that linked the Lower Chubut River Valley to Puerto Madryn, with railway building equipment and 400 settlers arriving on July 28 of that year on the steamer Vesta. The town was named Trelew in honour of Lewis Jones, tre meaning "town" in Welsh and Lew being an apocope for Lewis.
External links
- City home page (in Spanish)
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- A brief history (school project)
- Activities around Trelew
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