Rawson is a city in Argentina and is the capital of Chubut Province since the foundation of the province in 1957. The population is approximately 25,000, making it one of the smallest of Argentina's provincial capitals. Rawson is 1470 km from Buenos Aires, and about 7 km from the coast, near the Peninsula Valdés.
The town was founded on 15 September1865 by newly arrived immigrants from Wales, and it was named after Dr Guillermo Rawson, the Argentine Interior Minister of the time, who favoured the Welsh immigration. Substantial construction of government buildings in the 1970s resulted in the town being nicknamed "The little PatagonianBrasilia" (La Pequeña Brasilia de la Patagonia).
Rawson's climate is dry, with winter temperatures in the range 0° – 15°C, 10° – 20°C in spring and autumn, rising to a peak of 38°C in summer.
External links
Provincial Government of Chubut (http://www.chubut.gov.ar/) (in Spanish)
Interpatagonia.com on Rawson (http://www.interpatagonia.com/rawson/) (in Spanish)
Chubut is a province in the southern part of Argentina, that lies between the 42nd Parallel South (forming the border with the RÃo Negro Province) and 46th Parallel South (bordering Santa Cruz Province), the Andes range separating Argentina from Chile, and the Atlantic ocean.
The Argentine Northwest is a region of Argentina composed by the provinces of Jujuy, Salta, Catamarca and Tucumán.
Rawson is a city in Argentina and is the capital of Chubut Province since the foundation of the province in 1957.
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