This is the most important locality of the area. The L\u00ednea sur <\/strong>of the Province of R\u00edo Negro is made up by several towns that are not far from Jacobacci: Los Menucos, Maquinchao, Onelli, Sierra Colorada, Ramos Mex\u00eda, Aguada Cecilio and Comallo,<\/strong> among others. All of them have emerged and developed due to the train and to the extensive sheep breeding. Most of the inhabitants of this town descend from Mapuche aborigines and there is a large number of Syrian and Lebanese as well.<\/p>\n They also exploit diatomite rock<\/strong>, a white, soft, siliceous sedimentary rock that is used for whitening, Jacobacci used to be where the Old Patagonian Express ‘La Trochita\u00a8<\/a> ended its route. Unfortunately, nowadays the service is reduced to the Esquel-El Mait\u00e9n track. However, there are projects to restore the original rail track.<\/p>\n Visit the \u201cJorge Gerhold\u201d<\/strong> Natural, anthropology and historical Museum <\/strong>where you will be able to see different mammal fossils, giant arrowheads, a ceremonial axe, The Michay Festival <\/strong>(Fiesta del Michay), the bush with yellow flowers and blue fruits, takes place in February.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This small town has 5000 inhabitants and it is located in the center of the Patagonian Plateau. The railway line arrived in 1917 when there was only a small group of houses called Huahuel Niyeu, later baptized as Ingeniero Jacobacci so as to pay homage to the person in charge of building the railway line… 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":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ingeniero-jacobacci"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390","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=6390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6391,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390\/revisions\/6391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.patagonia-argentina.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"\/images\/esquel_trochitaEnNahuelPan3(1).jpg\")
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skulls of different Patagonian species and regional documents. The Fossil Trunk Square <\/strong>(Plaza de Troncos F\u00f3siles) is a green space with petrified trunks. In the intersection of the Rold\u00e1n and Curtizu streets, there is the \u00d1umican Crafts Center <\/strong>where there are wonderful knitting works following the Mapuche traditions.<\/p>\n