Welsh settlement in Patagonia

Trelew (, from "town" and the name of the founder, Lewis Jones) is a city in the eastern part of the Chubut Province of Argentina, 21km away from the coast. Located in Patagonia, the city is the largest and most populous in the low valley of the Chubut River, with 97,915 inhabitants as of 2010. The Trelew municipality is part of the Rawson Department, whose capital, Rawson, is also the provincial capital.

coastal city in the province of Chubut, Argentina

city in Argentina

ethnic group; Argentines of Welsh origin or ancestry

Trevelin (; ) is a town in the western part of the Patagonian Argentine province of Chubut. The town lies on the eastern banks of the (). It is located in the department of Futaleufú, south of Esquel, and had 6,395 inhabitants at the time of the and 7,908 inhabitants in the .

human settlement

Dolavon (Welsh: Dolafon) is a small town in the Patagonian province of Chubut, Argentina. It had a population of 2,929 according to the . It is located close to the Chubut River, about to the west of Gaiman. The name comes from Welsh dôl (meadow) and afon (river). Welsh immigrants began to settle in the area after their arrival in Patagonia in 1865. The Central Chubut Railway arrived in 1915, linking the settlement to Trelew, and the town was officially founded in 1919. Dolavon became a centre of wheat production using irrigation canals to compensate for the arid climate. The old flour mill wi

dialect of the Welsh language

2010 film by Marc Evans

Argentine writer (1870–1938)

former railway company in Argentina (1888-1958)