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Rawson Duplantis
Rawson may refer to: Places ;Argentina *Rawson, Chubut, the capital of Chubut Province *Rawson Department, Chubut *Rawson Department, San Juan **Villa Krause, also named Rawson, the capital city of the department ;Australia *Rawson, Victoria ;United States *Rawson, North Dakota *Rawson, Ohio Other uses *Rawson (surname) * Rawson Stakes, a horse race in Australia * a barley variety * a boarding house at Cranbrook School, Sydney, Cranbrook School in Sydney, Australia {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rawson, Chubut
Rawson (; ) is the capital of the Argentine province of Chubut, in Patagonia. It has 24,616 inhabitants in 2010, and it is the chief town of the Rawson Department. The city is named after Guillermo Rawson (1821–1890), Argentine Minister of the Interior, who supported the Welsh settlement in Argentina. Rawson is located about south of Buenos Aires, some from Trelew, and it is served by the Almirante Marco Andrés Zar Airport in Trelew. It lies on both sides of the Chubut River. The city has a fishing port, Puerto Rawson, on the Atlantic coast, down the river. History Rawson was the first town founded by the Welsh immigrants who sailed on the clipper '' Mimosa'' in 1865 to establish a national colony. At the time of founding remains of a mud-walled fortress existed on the site. Settlers dwelled in the fortress various months while they explored the surroundings and built permanent houses. It has been posited that the fort was built in 1853 by non-Indigenous hun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |