The
Welsh settlement in Argentina began in 1865 and occurred mainly along the coast of Chubut province in the far southern region of
PatagoniaPatagonia is a geographic region containing the southernmost portion of South America. Located in Argentina and Chile, it comprises the southernmost portion of the Andes mountains to the west and south, and plateaux and low plains to the east. The name Patagonia comes from the word patagón used by...
,
ArgentinaArgentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires. It is the eighth largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations, though Mexico,...
. In the 19th and early 20th century the Argentine government encouraged the immigration of Europeans to populate the country outside the Buenos Aires region; between 1856 and 1875 no fewer than 34 settlements of immigrants of various nationalities were established between
Santa FeThe Invincible Province of Santa Fe, in Spanish Provincia Invencible de Santa Fe, is a province of Argentina, located in the center-east of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise Chaco , Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, and Santiago del Estero...
and
Entre RiosEntre Ríos is a northeastern province of Argentina, located in the Mesopotamia region. It borders the provinces of Buenos Aires , Corrientes and Santa Fe , and Uruguay in the east....
. In addition to the main colony in Chubut, a smaller colony was set up in Santa Fe by 44
Welsh peopleThe Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
who left Chubut, and another group settled at
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in southern
Buenos Aires ProvinceBuenos Aires Province is the most populous province of Argentina. Though it takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the latter is not part of the provincial territory; Buenos Aires is an autonomous city...
. In the early 21st century, in Patagonia the Welsh-Argentine community numbers about 20,000. From Chubut's own estimate, the number of
Welsh speakersWelsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic spoken natively in Wales, in England by some along the Welsh border and in the Welsh immigrant colony in the Chubut Valley in Argentine Patagonia....
is about 1,500, while other estimates put the number at 5,000.
First settlers 1865
The idea of a Welsh colony in South America was put forward by Professor
Michael D. JonesMichael Daniel Jones was a Welsh Congregationalist minister and principal of a theological college, but is best remembered as a founder of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia known as Y Wladfa and as one of the fathers of modern Welsh nationalism.Jones was born in Llanuwchllyn, Merioneth in 1822...
, a
nationalistNationalism is an ideology, a sentiment, a form of culture, or a social movement that focuses on the nation. It is a type of collectivism emphasizing the collective of a specific nation...
non-conformist preacher based in
BalaBala is a market town in Gwynedd, Wales, and formerly an urban district of the historic county of Merionethshire. It lies at the north end of Bala Lake , 17 miles north-east of Dolgellau, with a population of 1,980...
who had called for a new "little Wales beyond Wales". He spent some years in the United States, where he observed that Welsh immigrants assimilated very quickly compared to other peoples and often lost much of their Welsh identity. He proposed setting up a
Welsh-speakingWelsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic spoken natively in Wales, in England by some along the Welsh border and in the Welsh immigrant colony in the Chubut Valley in Argentine Patagonia....
colony away from the influence of
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. He recruited settlers and provided financing.
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,
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and even
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were considered, but Patagonia was chosen for its isolation and the Argentines' apparently generous offer of 100 square miles (260
km²The square metre is the SI derived unit of area, with symbol m2. It is defined as the area of a square whose sides measure exactly one metre...
) of land along the
Chubut RiverThe Chubut River is a river in Patagonia, Southern Argentina. Its name derives from the Tehuelche word chupat, meaning "transparent", their description of the river. As this word is similar to the Spanish word chupar , the river's name was bowdlerized — adjusted for public decorum...
in exchange for settling the still-unconquered land of Patagonia for Argentina.
Towards the end of 1862 Captain
Love Jones-ParrySir Thomas Duncombe Love Jones-Parry, 1st Baronet was a Welsh landowner who was Liberal Member of Parliament for Caernarvonshire and one of the founders of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia....
and
Lewis JonesLewis Jones was one of the founders of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia. The city of Trelew was named after him....
(after whom Trelew was named) left for Patagonia to decide whether it was a suitable area for Welsh emigrants. They first visited Buenos Aires where they held discussions with the Interior Minister
Guillermo RawsonDr. Guillermo Rawson was a medical doctor and one of the most influential politicians in nineteenth century Argentina. As Interior Minister in 1862 he met Captain Love Jones-Parry and Lewis Jones who were on their way to Patagonia to investigate whether it was suitable for the creation of a Welsh...
then, having come to an agreement, headed south. They reached Patagonia in a small ship named the
Candelaria, and were driven by a storm into a bay which they named "Porth Madryn" after Jones-Parry's estate in Wales. The town which grew near the spot where they landed is now named
Puerto Madryn250px|Puerto Madryn is a city in the province of Chubut in the Argentine Patagonia. It is the head town of the Viedma Department, and has about 58,000 inhabitants....
. On their return to Wales they declared the area to be very suitable for colonization.
The permanent European settlement of the Chubut Valley and surrounding areas began on July 27, 1865 when 153
WelshThe Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
settlers arrived aboard the converted tea-clipper
MimosaThe Mimosa was a clipper ship best known for carrying the first Welsh emigrants to South America in 1865.By the time Mimosa made the voyage she was already past her prime, having been built in 1853 at Hall's shipyard in Aberdeen. She had not been designed to carry passengers, but had been...
. The
Mimosa had cost £2,500 to hire for the voyage and convert to passenger use, and the fare from
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to Patagonia was £12 for adults and £6 for children, although anyone willing to travel was taken on the journey regardless of ability to pay. The
Mimosa settlers, including
tailorA tailor is a person whose occupation is to sew and scissor menswear style jackets and the skirts or trousers that go with them.Although the term dates to the thirteenth century, tailor took on its modern sense in the late eighteenth century, and now refers to makers of men's and women's suits,...
s, cobblers,
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s,
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makers, and
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s, comprised 56 married adults, 33 single or widowed men, 12 single women (usually sisters or servants of married emigrants), and 52 children. There were few
farmerA farmer is a person who raises living organisms for food or raw materials.- Definition :The term farmer usually applies to a person who grows field crops, and/or manages orchards or vineyards, or raises livestock or poultry such as chicken and cows...
s, which was rather unfortunate particularly when they discovered that the attractions of the area had been oversold and they had landed in an arid semi-
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with little food. They had been told that the area was like lowland Wales. At the coast there was little
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and the group embarked on a walk across the parched plain with a single wheelbarrow to carry their belongings. Some died and a baby was born on the march, called Mary Humphries. John Williams was the only colonist with any form of rudimentary
medicalMedicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
skill.
Once they reached the valley of the Chubut River, their first settlement was a small fortress on the site which later became the town of
RawsonRawson is the capital of the Argentine province of Chubut, in Patagonia. It has about 26.000 inhabitants, and it is the head town of the Rawson Department, which has 122,000 inhabitants...
, now the capital of Chubut province. The first houses here were washed away by a flash flood in 1865, and new houses were constructed. The floods also washed away crops of potatoes and maize. The rainfall in the area was much less than the colonists had been led to expect, leading to crop failures.
Consolidation 1866–1888
The settlers first made contact with the local
TehuelcheTehuelches is a collective name for some native tribes of Patagonia. They are also called Patagonians.It is possible that the stories of the early European explorers about the Patagones, a race of giants in South America, are based on the Tehuelches, because the Tehuelches are typically tall...
people almost a year after their arrival. After some difficult early years of suspicion and a small amount of violence, the Tehuelche people established cordial relationships with the Welsh and helped the settlement survive the early food shortages. The settlers, led by Aaron Jenkins (whose wife Rachel was the first to bring up the idea of systematic use of irrigation canals), soon established Argentina's first
irrigationIrrigation is an artificial application of water to the soil. It is usually used to assist in growing crops in dry areas and during periods of inadequate rainfall...
system based on the Chubut River (in Welsh,
Afon Camwy, "winding river"), irrigating an area three or four miles (five or six km) to each side of the 50 mile (80 km) long stretch of river and creating Argentina's most fertile wheatlands. Initially the settlers were largely self-governing, with all men and women of 18 years of age or over having the right to vote. By 1885 wheat production had reached 6,000 tons, with wheat produced by the colony winning the gold medal at international expositions at
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and
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.
The mouth of the River Chubut was difficult to navigate, being shallow and with shifting sandbanks, and it was decided that a railway was required to connect the Lower Chubut valley to
Puerto Madryn250px|Puerto Madryn is a city in the province of Chubut in the Argentine Patagonia. It is the head town of the Viedma Department, and has about 58,000 inhabitants....
(originally Porth Madryn) on the
Golfo NuevoGolfo Nuevo is a body of water formed by the Península Valdés and Punta Ninfas in the province of Chubut in the Argentine Patagonia. It is located 650 miles southwest of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Puerto Madryn is its major seaport. From May to December, the Southern right whales migrate to Golfo...
on the southern side of Península Valdés. Lewis Jones was the driving force, and in 1884 the Argentine Congress authorised the construction of the Ferrocarril Central del Chubut by Lewis Jones y Cia. Raising funds for the project locally proved difficult, so Lewis Jones went to the United Kingdom to seek funds, where he enlisted the assistance of Asahel P. Bell, an engineer. Work on the railway began in 1886, helped by the arrival of another 465 Welsh settlers on the steamer Vesta. The town which grew at the railhead was named
Trelew (Town of Lew) in honour of Lewis Jones. The town grew rapidly and in 1888 became the headquarters of the "Compañía Mercantil del Chubut" (Chubut Trading Company).
Expansion towards the Andes 1885–1902
By the mid 1880s most of the good agricultural land in the Lower Chubut valley had been claimed, and the colonists mounted a number of expeditions to explore other parts of Patagonia to seek more cultivable land. In 1885 the Welsh asked the governor of Chubut, Luis Jorge Fontana for permission to arrange an expedition to explore the Andean part of Chubut. Fontana decided to accompany the expedition in person. By the end of November 1885 they had reached a fertile area which the Welsh named "Cwm Hyfryd" (Pleasant Valley). This became the site of another Welsh settlement, named in Spanish "Colonia 16 de Octubre". As the population grew here, the towns of
EsquelEsquel is a town in the northwest of the province of Chubut, in the Argentine Patagonia. It is located in the Futaleufú Department, of which it is the government's site...
and
TrevelinTrevelin is a town in the Patagonian province of Chubut in Argentina. It is located in the department of Futaleufú, south of Esquel, and had about 6,400 inhabitants at the time of the .The town was important in the Welsh settlement of Chubut...
were founded.
This area became the subject of a dispute between Argentina and Chile. Initially the border was defined by a line connecting the highest peaks in the area, but it later became clear that this line was not the same as the line separating the watersheds, with some of the rivers in the area flowing westwards. Argentina and Chile agreed that the United Kingdom should act as arbitrator, and the views of the Welsh settlers were canvassed. In 1902, despite an offer of a league of land per family from Chile, they voted to remain in Argentina.
Setbacks in the Lower Chubut Valley 1899–1915
Serious damage was caused by floods in the 1890s and 1900s, which devastated Rawson and to a lesser extent Gaiman, though Trelew was not affected. There was also disagreement between the settlers and the Argentine government, which introduced
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and insisted on males of military age drilling on Sundays. This ran counter to the Sabbatarian principles of the settlers and caused much ill-feeling, though the matter was eventually resolved by the intervention of the Argentine president
Julio Argentino RocaAlejo Julio Argentino Roca Paz was an army general who served as President of Argentina from 12 October 1880 to 12 October 1886 and again from 12 October 1898 to 12 October 1904.-Upbringing and early career:...
. These factors together with a lack of unclaimed farmable land caused 234 people to leave for Liverpool aboard the
Orissa on 14 May 1902, with 208 of them subsequently travelling to
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, arriving at
Saltcoats, SaskatchewanSaltcoats is a small town in East Central Saskatchewan near the Manitoba border in Canada. The town's population is around 500. The town was built in the late 1800s, and its economy was driven by the railroad...
in late June, although some of these families later returned to Chubut. Some other settlers moved to the Rio Negro area of Argentina. Many of those who left Chubut were late arrivals who had failed to obtain land of their own, and they were replaced by more immigrants from Wales. By the end of the 19th century there were some 4,000 people of Welsh descent living in Chubut. The last substantial immigration from Wales took place shortly before
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, which put a halt to further immigration. Approximately 1,000 Welsh immigrants arrived in Patagonia between 1886 and 1911; on the basis of this and other statistics, Glyn Williams has estimated that perhaps no more than 2,300 Welsh people ever migrated directly to Patagonia.
Later development
In time the colony proved remarkably successful, though as immigration to the area after 1914 was mainly from
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and other southern European countries the Welsh gradually became a minority. As well as the irrigation system, the creation of a Co-operative Society
(Compañía Mercantil de Chubut) was crucial. The Society traded on the settlers' behalf in
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and acted as a bank with 14 branches. The strong chapel-based society was also important, with an emphasis on mutual help and support, social activities and insurance schemes. However, the Co-operative Society collapsed in the
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of the 1930s and many lost their savings. The construction of a dam on the Rio Chubut 120 km west of Trelew, inaugurated on 19 April 1963, removed the risk of flooding in the Lower Chubut Valley.
The Welsh have left their mark on the landscape, with windmills and chapels across the province, including the distinctive wood and corrugated zinc Capel Salem and Trelew's Salon San David, an attempt to reproduce
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,
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. Many settlements along the valley bear Welsh names.
Over the years use of the
Welsh languageWelsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic spoken natively in Wales, in England by some along the Welsh border and in the Welsh immigrant colony in the Chubut Valley in Argentine Patagonia....
has declined, and there was comparatively little contact between Wales and Chubut for many years after 1914. Things began to change when a large number of Welsh people visited Patagonia in 1965 for celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of the colony. Since then there has been a great increase in the number of visitors from Wales. Teachers are sent to assist in keeping the language alive, and there is some social cachet in knowing the language—even among people who are not of Welsh ancestry. There are still important cultural activities, including chapel, poetry and Welsh teas served in teahouses alongside the river in Gaiman and
DolavonDolavon is a small town in the Patagonian province of Chubut, Argentina. It has a population of 2,929 according to the . It is located close to the Chubut River, about 19 km to the west of Gaiman. The name comes from Welsh dôl and afon . Welsh immigrants began to settle in the area after their...
. In 2006, the links between the Chubut Valley and Wales were again underscored, this time in a sporting context. The first of a
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to
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by the
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was played in Puerto Madryn, a 27–25 win for Argentina. Another example of the Argentina-Wales connection is that Welsh Centre in London has been for many years one of the main venues for dancing
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.
Principal settlements in the area are
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,
TrevelinTrevelin is a town in the Patagonian province of Chubut in Argentina. It is located in the department of Futaleufú, south of Esquel, and had about 6,400 inhabitants at the time of the .The town was important in the Welsh settlement of Chubut...
("Milltown"),
RawsonRawson is the capital of the Argentine province of Chubut, in Patagonia. It has about 26.000 inhabitants, and it is the head town of the Rawson Department, which has 122,000 inhabitants...
, Trelew,
DolavonDolavon is a small town in the Patagonian province of Chubut, Argentina. It has a population of 2,929 according to the . It is located close to the Chubut River, about 19 km to the west of Gaiman. The name comes from Welsh dôl and afon . Welsh immigrants began to settle in the area after their...
and
GaimanGaiman is a town in the Chubut Province of Patagonia in Argentina. It has a population of about 6,000 as per the . It is located close to the River Chubut, about 15 km west of Trelew....
.
Welsh language names for Argentine places
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Yr Ariannin |
Argentina |
| La Angostura |
Lle Cul |
Narrow Place |
| Arroyo Pescado |
Nant y Pysgod |
Fish Stream |
| Colonia 16 de Octubre |
Cwm Hyfryd/Bro Hydref |
Beautiful Valley/October Valley |
| Fuerte Aventura |
Caer Antur |
Fort Adventure |
| Paso de Indios Paso de Indios is a town in Chubut Province, Argentina. It is the head town of the Paso de Indios Department....
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Rhyd yr Indiaid |
Indian's Ford |
| Las Plumas Las Plumas is a village in Chubut Province, Argentina. It is the head town of the Mártires Department. It was established in 1921....
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Dôl y Plu |
Meadow of the Feathers |
Puerto Madryn250px|Puerto Madryn is a city in the province of Chubut in the Argentine Patagonia. It is the head town of the Viedma Department, and has about 58,000 inhabitants....
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Porth Madryn |
Port Madryn |
| Rawson Rawson is the capital of the Argentine province of Chubut, in Patagonia. It has about 26.000 inhabitants, and it is the head town of the Rawson Department, which has 122,000 inhabitants...
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Trerawson |
Rawson |
| Río Chubut The Chubut River is a river in Patagonia, Southern Argentina. Its name derives from the Tehuelche word chupat, meaning "transparent", their description of the river. As this word is similar to the Spanish word chupar , the river's name was bowdlerized — adjusted for public decorum...
(from Tehuelche 'Chupat', meaning 'shining, glinting') |
Afon Camwy |
Swirling River |
| Río Corrintos |
Aber Gyrants |
Turning Estuary |
| Valle de los Mártires |
Dyffryn y Merthyron |
Valley of the Martyrs |
| Valle Frío |
Dyffryn Oer |
Cold Valley |
TrelewTrelew is a city in the province of Chubut, in the Argentine Patagonia, with a population of 93,386 as per the . The city has a small commercial centre. The Salon San David is a replica of St David's Cathedral, Pembrokeshire...
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Tre Lew(is) |
Lew(is) Town |
DolavonDolavon is a small town in the Patagonian province of Chubut, Argentina. It has a population of 2,929 according to the . It is located close to the Chubut River, about 19 km to the west of Gaiman. The name comes from Welsh dôl and afon . Welsh immigrants began to settle in the area after their...
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Dol Afon |
River Meadow |
TrevelinTrevelin is a town in the Patagonian province of Chubut in Argentina. It is located in the department of Futaleufú, south of Esquel, and had about 6,400 inhabitants at the time of the .The town was important in the Welsh settlement of Chubut...
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Tre Felin |
Mill Town |
See also
- Anglo Argentine
- Irish Argentine
- Eluned Morgan
Eluned Morgan , was a Welsh-language author from Patagonia.Born aboard the ship Myfanwy en route to Patagonia, she was the daughter of Lewis Jones who gave his name to the city of Trelew...
- Welsh colonization of the Americas
Welsh settlement in the Americas was the result of several individual initiatives to found distinctively Welsh settlements in the New World. It can be seen as part of the more general British colonization of the Americas.-The Madoc legend:...
- Welsh Tract
The Welsh Tract, also called the Welsh Barony, was a portion of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania settled largely by Welsh-speaking Quakers. It covers 40,000 acres to the west of Philadelphia...
- A Swiftly Tilting Planet
A Swiftly Tilting Planet is a 1978 science fiction novel by Madeleine L'Engle, part of the Time Quartet.In A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Charles Wallace Murry, a very advanced and perceptive child in A Wrinkle in Time and A Wind in the Door, has grown into an adolescent...
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