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Rawson is a city in southern Argentina and serves as the capital of the Chubut Province. It is an important administrative and cultural center for the region, located in Patagonia near the Atlantic coast.
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Rawson ( Spanish: [ˈrawson]; Welsh: [ˈrau̯sɔn]) is the capital of the Argentine province of Chubut, in Patagonia. It has 24,616 inhabitants in 2010, and it is the chief town of the Rawson Department.
The city is named after Guillermo Rawson (1821–1890), Argentine Minister of the Interior, who supported the Welsh settlement in Argentina.