History Of Patagonia

Current situation of Aboriginal people

Today the aboriginal ethnic group with the most descendants in Patagonia is the Mapuche. We present you a brief summary of the living conditions and current distribution. The Mapuche indigenous population is concentrated between the central zone and the pre-Andean range in the Provinces of Neuquén, Río Negro and Chubut....

Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid In Patagonia

The famous bandits were in Argentine Patagonia in the beginning of the twentieth century; such a legend has been debated in a symposium in Trevelin, town located in the Andean area of the Province of Chubut. Last September, “The Second...

The Mapuche

The Mapuche (people of the earth, in their language) was one of the major aboriginal groups in Patagonia. They arrived in Patagonia Argentina from Chile, where they originated. They were collectors and hunters, but one of their most relevant feature...

Immigrants in Patagonia

The colonization method used by the Spanish was quite different from the one exerted in the United States, which was based upon rural colonization. In our country the model followed was one of urban colonization and, as a consequence, huge...

Patagonia’s People: The primitive

The first men arrived to the southern edge of Patagonia and the Tierra del Fuego Channels ten thousand years ago. Their ethnical origins were diverse but surely all of them came in from the north and belonged to tribes that...

Travelers and Scientists

Travelers and scientists are a different, special category of explorers They no longer seek, like their predecessors, for gold or personal wealth. Instead, they are driven by the need of knowledge and the discovery of new species in order to...

The Selk’nam (Onas) and the Yamanas

The island of Tierra del Fuego was inhabited by two large groups of aborigines: the Selk'nam on the mainland, and Yámana, who lived most of the time on canoes in the canals and the coast. The Selk'nam, better know as...