Y Wladfa, also occasionally Y Wladychfa Gymreig, refers to the establishment of settlements by Welsh colonists and immigrants in the Argentine Patagonia, beginning in 1865, mainly along the coast of the lower Chubut Valley. In 1881, the area became part of the Chubut National Territory of Argentina which, in 1955, became Chubut Province.
Chubut is a province in southern Argentina, situated between the 42nd parallel south, the 46th parallel south, the Andes range to the west, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. The province's name derives from the Tehuelche word chupat, meaning "transparent", their description of the Chubut River.
Trevelin is a town in the western part of the Patagonian Argentine province of Chubut. The town lies on the eastern banks of the Percy River. It is located in the department of Futaleufú, 22 kilometres (14 mi) south of Esquel, and had 6,395 inhabitants at the time of the 2001 census [INDEC] and 7,908 inhabitants in the 2010 census [INDEC].
The Tehuelche people, also called the Aónikenk, are an Indigenous people from eastern Patagonia in South America. In the 18th and 19th centuries the Tehuelche were influenced by Mapuche people, and many adopted a horseriding lifestyle. Once a nomadic people, the lands of the Tehuelche were colonized in the 19th century by Argentina and Chile, gradually disrupting their traditional economies. The establishment of large sheep farming estates in Patagonia was particularly detrimental to the Tehuelche. Contact with outsiders also brought in infectious diseases ushering deadly epidemics among Tehuelche tribes. Most existing members of the group currently reside in cities and towns of Argentine Patagonia.
Patagonian Welsh is a variety of the Welsh language spoken in Y Wladfa, the Welsh settlement in Patagonia, Chubut Province, Argentina. Patagonian Welsh has developed to be a distinct dialect of Welsh, different from the several dialects used in Wales itself; however, the dialects have a high degree of mutual intelligibility, and speakers from Wales and Patagonia are able to communicate readily. Numerous toponyms throughout the Chubut Valley are of Welsh origin.
The Central Chubut Railway was a British-owned company that built and operated a 1,000 mmmetre gauge railway line in the Argentine province of Chubut in the Patagonia region at the end of the 19th. century.
National Route 25 is a 534-kilometer-long paved highway that runs through the center of Chubut Province, Argentina. It extends from the juncture with National Route 40 in Tecka to the bridge on the Chubut River in the city of Rawson. The highway crosses the Patagonian Steppe, joining sparsely populated areas.
Romina Del Plá is an activist in the Workers' Party (Argentina).
Ana Carla Carrizo is an Argentine political scientist and politician, currently serving as National Deputy elected in the City of Buenos Aires since 2013. She is a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR).
Brenda Lis Austin is an Argentine politician who served as a National Deputy elected in Córdoba Province from 2016 to 2021. She is a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR).
María Soledad Carrizo is an Argentine politician, currently serving as National Deputy elected in Córdoba since 2013. She is a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR). She was intendenta (mayor) of Quilino, a municipality in the Ischilín Department of Córdoba Province, from 2007 to 2013.
María Rosa Martínez is an Argentine trade unionist and politician, currently serving as member of the Buenos Aires Province Senate, elected in 2023. A member of Kolina, she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2019 as part of the Frente de Todos. Martínez previously worked in a number of positions in the Ministry of Social Development during the administration of Alicia Kirchner (2007–2015), and as a city councillor in Almirante Brown. She is also active in the Corriente Federal de Trabajadores (CFT).
Roxana Nahir Claudia Reyes is an Argentine politician, currently serving as National Deputy elected in Santa Cruz since 2017. She is a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR). Previously, from 2015 to 2017, she served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Santa Cruz, elected in the provincial list.
Kissy Chandiramani Ramesh is a Spanish politician from Ceuta. A member of the Ceuta's autonomous government, she briefly served as MP in the Congress of Deputies in 2019 as part of the People's Party (PP) parliamentary group.
Ignacio Agustín "Nacho" Torres is an Argentine politician, currently serving as Governor of Chubut of Chubut Province since 2023. He previously served as a National Senator for Chubut. A member of Republican Proposal (PRO), Torres was elected in 2021 and sits in the Juntos por el Cambio parliamentary inter-bloc. He also served as a National Deputy from 2019 to 2021.
Juan Mario Pais is an Argentine politician, who was a National Senator for Chubut from 2015 to 2021 and a National Deputy from 2007 to 2015. He belongs to the Justicialist Party.
María, better known as María la Grande or María Grande, is the Christian name of a woman who served as the cacica of the southern Tehuelche people who lived in the Strait of Magellan and the Patagonian coast during the first half of the 19th century. Her direct domain was focused in the territory of the Bay of San Gregorio, in the present-day Chilean region of Magallanes, although she was called upon in other Patagonian regions when a conflictive situation required her judgment.
Romina Maricel Uhrig is an Argentine former politician who served as a National Deputy of the Argentine Congress from 2019 to 2021. A member of the Justicialist Party, she was elected in Buenos Aires Province as part of the Unidad Ciudadana coalition.
Estela Mary del Rosario Neder is an Argentine nutritionist and politician, currently serving as National Deputy elected in Santiago del Estero since 2017. She is a member of the Civic Front for Santiago (FCpS). She sits in the Frente de Todos parliamentary bloc.
