Welsh People's Museum, Trelew

Avenida Road in Fontana

National Bank at night

Trelew is a city in the province of Chubut, in the Argentine Patagonia, with a population of about 102,000 as per the 2001 census [INDEC]. The city has a small commercial center, several neighborhoods, and some villas miseria (shanty towns), in which the houses are made of tin metal or pressed cardboard. The living conditions in these villas are very harsh, because winters of −10 °C are common. As of 2005, unemployment is high and the city is losing population. Omega Tower Trelew is a communication tower located in the town. This is a list of cities in Argentina. ... Argentina is subdivided in 23 provinces (Spanish: provincias, singular - provincia) and 1 federal district (capital federal). ... Chubut is a province in the southern part of Argentina, that lies between the 42nd Parallel South (forming the border with the Río Negro Province) and 46th Parallel South (bordering Santa Cruz Province), the Andes range separating Argentina from Chile, and the Atlantic ocean. ... Departments (Spanish: departamentos) form the second level of administrative division in the provinces of Argentina. ... A demonym or gentilic is a word that denotes the members of a people or the inhabitants of a place. ... A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating telephone number ranges to countries, regions, areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks such as mobile phone networks. ... Argentina made major changes to its telephone numbering plan in 1999, after its telephone system was privatized. ... The Argentine postal code is a system that assigns at least an unique alphanumeric postal codes to each municipality. ... ISO 3166-2:AR is an ISO standard which defines geocodes: it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Argentina. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 1. ... Fontana is either: Fontana, California Fontana, Kansas Fontana, Gozo Island, Republic of Malta This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 1. ... Argentina is subdivided in 23 provinces (Spanish: provincias, singular - provincia) and 1 federal district (capital federal). ... Chubut is a province in the southern part of Argentina, that lies between the 42nd Parallel South (forming the border with the Río Negro Province) and 46th Parallel South (bordering Santa Cruz Province), the Andes range separating Argentina from Chile, and the Atlantic ocean. ... Patagonia, as most commonly defined (in orange). ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1870 US Census for New York City A census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population). ... National Statistics and Censuses Institute (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, INDEC) is the Argentine government agency responsible for the collection and processing of statistical data. ... Homes in a villa miseria in Rosario. ... Shanty town in Manila, Philippines. ... See also: 2004 in Argentina, other events of 2005, 2006 in Argentina // Events January January 11: The state fines power distribution companies and national water company on grounds of bad quality service, and reclaims unpaid fines and unfulfilled investment goals, for a total of more $50 million. ... The Omega Tower Trelew was a 366 metre high guyed steel framework mast for transmissions of the OMEGA Radio Navigation Network. ...

The Argentine Navy maritime patrol aircraft P-3 Orion are based at the Base Aeronaval Almirante Zar near Trelew, from where they survey the long Atlantic coast. The Salon San David, is a replica of St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire. The Navy of the Argentine Republic (Armada de la República Argentina, ARA) is the navy of Argentina. ... The Lockheed P-3 Orion is a maritime patrol aircraft of numerous militaries around the world, used primarily for maritime patrol, reconnaissance, and anti-submarine warfare. ... The Atlantic Ocean forms a component of the all-encompassing World Ocean and is directly linked to the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the Southern Ocean. ... St Davids Cathedral from the gatehouse St Davids Cathedral is situated in the tiny city of St Davids in Pembrokeshire. ... Pembrokeshire (Welsh: ) is a county in the southwest of Wales in the United Kingdom. ...

History

Trelew's foundation is linked with Welsh settlement in Argentina, the leaders of which were Captain Sir Love Jones-Parry of Madryn and Lewis (Luis) Jones, who acted as spokesmen to deal with the Argentine government at the beginning in the 1860s. The Welsh settlement in Argentina began in the 19th century. ... Sir Thomas Duncombe Love Jones-Parry, 1st Baronet (5 January 1832 – 1891) was a Welsh landowner who was Liberal Member of Parliament for Caernarvonshire and one of the founders of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia. ... Lewis Jones (30 January 1836 - 24 November 1904) was one of the founders of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia. ...

Trelew was established in 1886 as head station for the railway track that linked the Lower Chubut River Valley to Puerto Madryn, with railway building equipment and 400 settlers arriving on July 28 of that year on the steamer Vesta. The town was named Trelew in honour of Lewis Jones, tre meaning "town" in Welsh and Lew being an apocope for Lewis. Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Puerto Madryn (in Welsh, Porth Madryn) is a city in the province of Chubut in the Argentine Patagonia. ... July 28 is the 209th day of the year (210th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... There are several people named Lewis Jones: Lewis Jones, a writer Lewis Jones, a rugby player Lewis Wade Jones - African American sociologist and educator This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ... An apocope or apocopation is a type of metaplasm that refers to a word formed by removing the end of a longer original word. ...

The 1972 massacre

Trelew was the scene of a massacre in 1972. A breakout of political prisoners at the federal penitentiary resulted in the death of one guard and the attempted flight of about 100 individuals who opposed the military dictatorship which followed the overthrow of President Arturo Illia. A small group of prisoners succeeded in commandeering a plane and flying to safety in Chile. The rest submitted to the authorities and were returned to a military prison, where about 18 were gunned down in cold blood (three survived). The town of Trelew was searched by the military and town members were seized and taken to a prison in Buenos Aires, at Villa Devoto. Virtually the entire town went on strike and succeeded in securing the release of the prisoners at Villa Devoto. These incidents were documented in the book La Pasión según Trelew, by Tomás Eloy Martínez, which was originally published in 1973, but was then suppressed by the dictatorship of the Proceso, and reissued in 1997. Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Arturo Umberto Illia Francesconi (August 4, 1900 _ January 18, 1983) was President of Argentina from 12 October 1963 to 28 June 1966. ... Tomás Eloy Martínez (born July 16, 1934 in Tucumán) is an Argentine journalist and writer. ... Year 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar) of the 1973 Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Dirty War. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Trelew Site
• City home page (in Spanish)
• Municipal information — Municipal Affairs Federal Institute (IFAM), Municipal Affairs Secretariat, Ministry of Interior, Argentina.
• A brief history (school project)
• Activities around Trelew