Gastre
Sign in to saveGastre (from Tehuelche Gástrrek, meaning "shrub") is a village in Chubut Province, Argentina. It is the head town of the Gastre Department. It was founded in 1904. The place was the center of a controversy in the early 1990s when Argentina's National Atomic Energy Commission proposed to build a deep borehole disposal in the area. It was intended for radioactive waste to stay in the area for "1,000 years" until the radiation reached a non-lethal level.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Gastre
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- es
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Gastre1.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Entrance to Gastre
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- Argentina
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- Location of Gastre in Argentina
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Argentina
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Chubut
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Department
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Gastre
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 1,208
- Settlement.population_total
- 557
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.blank1_name
- Climate
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Gastre (from Tehuelche Gástrrek, meaning "shrub") is a village in Chubut Province, Argentina. It is the head town of the Gastre Department. It was founded in 1904. The place was the center of a controversy in the early 1990s when Argentina's National Atomic Energy Commission proposed to build a deep borehole disposal in the area. It was intended for radioactive waste to stay in the area for "1,000 years" until the radiation reached a non-lethal level.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gastre” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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