{"id":6384,"date":"2018-06-12T12:08:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T15:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/?p=6384"},"modified":"2018-06-12T12:08:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T15:08:42","slug":"canadon-de-los-muertos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/canyon-of-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Canyon of the dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a depression located at 7 Km. (4 mi.) from Gobernador Gregores and 800 meters (2,625 ft) from provincial route N\u00ba 27, in the cattle breeding farm known as \u201cBella Vista\u201d. <strong>In 1921 this place was the setting for the Patagonian Strike repression.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Workers were slaughtered by the 10th Horse Mounted Regiment commanded by Lieutenant <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/ggreg_009_canadondelosmuertos.jpg\" alt=\"Monument to the dead\" width=\"170\" height=\"240\" align=\"right\" \/>Colonel H\u00e9ctor B. Varela. <b>More than 200 rural workers died in defense of their freedom and stayed in this canyon <\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>forever<\/b><\/span><b>. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>At that time, the soldiers, so as not to waste their time digging individual graves, decided on a common grave in the canyon. The bodies were incinerated in a fire made with black bush, cut by the very same condemned workers before killing them.<\/p>\n<p>More than 70 years later, in 1999, the local Town Council declares the <strong>Canyon of the Dead a \u201cHistorical Site\u201d,<\/strong> in memory of those who were sacrificed for defending the common man\u2019s dignity and rights.<br \/>\nIn October <strong>1999<\/strong>, a cross was erected in this place for the first time and a ceremony was held, with historian <strong>Osvaldo Bayer<\/strong>, author of <strong>\u201cLos Vengadores de la Patagonia Tr\u00e1gica\u201d<\/strong>, as a special guest and speaker. In March <strong>2000<\/strong>, the Town Hall erected a <strong>Memorial<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><em>(Text provided by \u00c1ngel Subir\u00e1)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a depression located at 7 Km. (4 mi.) from Gobernador Gregores and 800 meters (2,625 ft) from provincial route N\u00ba 27, in the cattle breeding farm known as \u201cBella Vista\u201d. In 1921 this place was the setting for the Patagonian Strike repression. Workers were slaughtered by the 10th Horse Mounted Regiment commanded by&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/canyon-of-the-dead\/\">Read on<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[26],"class_list":{"0":"post-6384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-gobernador-gregores","7":"tag-excursiones"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6385,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6384\/revisions\/6385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}