Trevelin is a town in Chubut Province, Argentina. It is in the department of Futaleufú, south of Esquel. Categories: Argentina geography stubs | Argentine provinces | Chubut ... Esquel is a town in the north east of Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina. ...
The town was originally known as 'Colonia 16 de Octubre' and was important in the Welsh settlement of the Chubut Valley. It was renamed Trevelin, the Welsh for 'mill town', due to the Los Andes mill that used to operate there. National motto: Cymru am byth (Welsh: Wales for ever) Waless location within the UK Official languages English(100%), Welsh(20. ... The Chubut valley in Patagonia, Argentina forms the heart of the Chubut Province, the third largest province of Argentina. ... Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ...
Trevelin queda a 22 kilómetros de Esquel, principal ciudad cordillerana de la provincia de Chubut.
Trevelin debe su nombre a la lengua galesa que se conserva allí hasta hoy en día: Tre: pueblo, Velin: molino.
El conjunto de estos rasgos culturales, deja en Trevelin una impronta que es claramente apreciable en la arquitectura de algunas viviendas, las antiguas capillas galesas y las actividades culturales como los encuentros de coros, y el Eisteddfod, certamen de poetas que tradicionalmente el pueblo galés realiza hace varios siglos.
It's a long way from Wales but Trevelin, the "village of the mill", is as Welsh as any village within a day's wander from Cardiff.
The big difference is that Trevelin lies in a broad, fertile valley backed by the snowy Andean mountains of Argentine Patagonia - where Welsh migrants settled late last century.
Trevelin is a short bus ride (26kms, US$1.50) from Esquel and is en route to Chile and its border town of Futaleufú.
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