{"id":1169,"date":"2024-12-07T15:58:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T15:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/?page_id=1169"},"modified":"2024-12-07T15:58:26","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T15:58:26","slug":"puerto-deseado","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aegir-ran.com\/index.php\/puerto-deseado\/","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Deseado"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Puerto Deseado<\/strong>, originally called Port Desire<\/strong>, is a city of about 15,000 inhabitants and a fishing port<\/a> in Patagonia<\/a> in Santa Cruz Province<\/a> of Argentina<\/a>, on the estuary of the Deseado River<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was named Port Desire<\/em> by the privateer<\/a> Thomas Cavendish<\/a> in 1586 after the name of his ship<\/a>, and later became known by the Spanish<\/a> translation of the name. Today, the straggly town has a couple of pleasant squares, a former railway station and two museums, one with a collection of indigenous artifacts and one at the seafront with relics from the sloop of war<\/a> HMS Swift<\/em><\/a> which sank in 1770, recovered after its wreck was discovered in the port in 1982. The coast boasts spectacular scenery and colonies of marine wildlife close to the town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The harbour, nearly 32 km (20 mi) long, was discovered in 1520 during the first circumnavigation<\/a> of the world by the Magellan-Elcano Spanish expedition<\/a>. Other Spanish expeditions followed, including the Loa\u00edsa expedition<\/a> (1525) or the Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa<\/a> expedition (1579). Sixty six years after the Magellan Elcano expedition, on 17 December 1586, the english privateer Thomas Cavendish<\/a> sailed into the estuary during his voyage of circumnavigation<\/a> seeking to raid the Pacific coasts of the Viceroyalty of Peru<\/a>. His flagship was the Desire<\/em><\/a>, accompanied by the Hugh Gallant<\/em> and the Content.<\/em> He named the harbour Port Desire<\/em> after his ship, and the point of land at the harbour mouth is still known as Punta Cavendish<\/em>. They were faced by the Mapuche<\/a> Tehuelche, who shot arrows that wounded some of the crew. After ten days Cavendish took his ships on their way, and returned to England in 1588. A second attempt by the english to attack or occupy parts of the Spanish Empire resulted in Cavendish leading an expedition in 1591 with five ships, sailing on the Leicester Galleon.<\/em> After raiding Santos<\/a> in Brazil<\/a> the fleet suffered problems in the winter at the Strait of Magellan<\/a>, and some of the boats went to Port Desire. The few surviving men and boats made their way back to england, sailing to the nearby Penguin Island<\/em> then south, but were caught by a storm and, forced to run before the wind, came on unknown islands, making the first probable sighting of the Falkland Islands<\/a>.[citation needed<\/a><\/em>]<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1789 the port was visited by both ships, the Atrevida<\/em> and the Descubierta<\/em>, of the Malaspina Scientific Expedition.<\/a> On the voyage that was to found Nueva Colonia y Fuerte de Floridablanca<\/a>,<\/em> on 20 April 1780 Antonio Viedma made a stop and founded a temporary settlement on the river south bank. During the seven months it was inhabited, houses, a bread oven, a blacksmith, a hospital for scurvy<\/a> and a wooden fort were built, and over one hundred people lived there, including the sea men.[1]<\/sup>[2]<\/sup> In 1790, during the viceroyalty of the R\u00edo de la Plata<\/a>times, the Armada forced captain John Byron<\/a> out of the Falklands. During his escape, the sloop-of-war<\/a> Swift<\/em> headed for Port Desire, but was shipwrecked on a concealed rock. In 1790 a village and fort was established at Puerto Deseado by the Real Compa\u00f1\u00eda Mar\u00edtima<\/em> (Royal Maritime Company). It was the main headquarters of an array of fishing posts such as the one in isla Ping\u00fcinos. It was built with bread oven, farming land, hospital, chapel, fishing and salting facilities, and the Todos los Santos and San Carlos forts, which served as presidio<\/a>. The desertion of the villagers, cost of constant supplies and lack of whales in the nearabouts (only sea lions were found) caused the end of the Real Compa\u00f1\u00eda Mar\u00edtima<\/em>, and the last soldiers of the presidio left in 1807 during the British invasions of the River Plate<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the time of the Argentine Confederation, on 1833, the HMS Beagle<\/a> stopped at the port, being Charles Darwin<\/a> a member of the crew. The village was founded for the third time in 1882 when Antonio Oneto obtained funds from Hipolito Irigoyen<\/a>, Ministry of the Interior<\/a>, to establish Deseado and Santa Cruz. The new villagers were given farming land, credits and tools.[3]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1902 the railway station from the Puerto Deseado Railway<\/a> was built. During the 1982 Falklands war<\/a> the Kettledrum operation<\/em>aiming to bomb Deseado was planned, but not carried out.[4]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Under the K\u00f6ppen climate classification<\/a>, Puerto Deseado has a cold semi-desert climate<\/a>(BSk<\/em>) with mild, occasionally warm summers and cold winters. In spite of the lack of rainfall, the weather generally remains cloudy, with average temperatures and gloominess being reminiscent of the British Isles<\/a>. Due to the effect of more continental interior conditions, occasional extreme heat and harsh frosts do appear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tourism<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Most of the tourism industry is based on touring the estuary to see the diverse fauna, such as the Commerson’s dolphin<\/a>, Magellanic<\/a> and Rockhopper penguins<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Economy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Puerto Deseado’s economy is based on the fishing industry. There are several fish-processing plants by its coasts on “Avenida Costanera” and a high percentage of the population works on jobs related to industrial fishing such as stevedores, crane operators, fish cleaners and the like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

References<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. \u00a0fgm847.\u00a0“Antonio de Viedma y Verdejo, explorador y colonizador”<\/a>.\u00a0Identidad e Imagen de Andaluc\u00eda en la Edad Moderna<\/em>\u00a0(in Spanish). Retrieved\u00a02024-03-09.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. \u00a0Buscaglia, Silvana (2021).\u00a0“El campamento provisional de Antonio Viedma (Patagonia Atl\u00e1ntica, 1780) expectativas y desaf\u00edos para una arqueolog\u00eda de las ocupaciones coloniales de corta duraci\u00f3n”<\/a>.\u00a0Magallania (Punta Arenas)<\/em>.\u00a049<\/strong>.\u00a0doi<\/a>:10.22352\/magallanla202149007<\/a>.\u00a0ISSN<\/a>\u00a00718-2244<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. \u00a0Gobierno de Santa Cruz<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. \u00a0Southby-Tailyour, Ewen (2014-04-02).\u00a0Exocet Falklands: The Untold Story of Special Forces Operations<\/em><\/a>. Pen & Sword Books.\u00a0ISBN<\/a>\u00a0978-1-4738-3689-1<\/bdi><\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
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  7. \u00a0“Clima en la Argentina: Guia Clim\u00e1tica por Puerto Deseado”<\/a>.\u00a0Caracterizaci\u00f3n: Estad\u00edsticas de largo plazo<\/em>\u00a0(in Spanish). Servicio Meteorol\u00f3gico Nacional. Retrieved\u00a029 April\u00a02023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  8. \u00a0“Valores Medios de Temperatura y Precipitaci\u00f3n-Santa Cruz: Puerto Deseado”<\/a>\u00a0(in Spanish). Servicio Meteorol\u00f3gico Nacional. Retrieved\u00a0April 21,\u00a02015.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  9. \u00a0“Klimatafel von Puerto Deseado, Prov. Santa Cruz \/ Argentinien”<\/a>\u00a0(PDF).\u00a0Baseline climate means (1961-1990) from stations all over the world<\/em>\u00a0(in German). Deutscher Wetterdienst. Retrieved\u00a0February 14,\u00a02016.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  10. \u00a0“Provincia de Santa Cruz – Clima Y Meteorologia: Datos Meteorologicos Y Pluviometicos”<\/a>\u00a0(in Spanish). Secretaria de Mineria de la Nacion (Argentina). Archived from\u00a0the original<\/a>\u00a0on January 19, 2015. Retrieved\u00a0January 19,\u00a02014.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Puerto Deseado, originally called Port Desire, is a city of about 15,000 inhabitants and a fishing port in Patagonia in Santa Cruz Province of Argentina, on the estuary of the Deseado River. It was named Port Desire by the privateer Thomas Cavendish in 1586 after the name of his ship, and later became known by the Spanish translation of the name. Today, the straggly town has a couple of pleasant squares, a … <\/p>\n

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