Friday, February 4, 2011

PUERTO MADRYN, ARGENTINA: A WELSH ENCLAVE-FEBRUARY 4, 2011

The tiny town Argentine town of Puerto Madryn lies on the western shores of Golfo Nuevo where the warm South Atlantic waters from Brazil provide a protected environment for a variety of animals, birds and sea creatures that come here to bear their young.
A Welsh gentleman in 1865 by the name of Viscount Parry Madryn emigrated from Wales to this part of Argentina along with several families who wanted to escape the Welsh mining towns. The Argentine government gave the families 247 acres of land and thus began "New Wales".
There is a promontory known as Punta Loma that is known as an important breeding spot for sea lions and a nature reserve has been established here.
Don went to see the wildlife and I walked the town.

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