Puerto Deseado
Puerto Deseado (founded as Port Desire ) is the capital of the department Deseado in the Argentine province of Santa Cruz in Patagonia. It has about 10,000 inhabitants, situated at the mouth of the Río Deseado in the Atlantic Ocean and has a fishing harbor.
The city was founded by Thomas Cavendish in 1586 and named after the ship Port Desire. Later spread the Spanish translation, and eventually became the official name. Puerto Deseado has a disused railway station, a library ( Biblioteca Pública Municipal y " Florentino Ameghino " ) and two museums. One shows a collection of Native American objects in the other, the " Museo Regional Mario Brozoski " are found objects shown from the wreck of the sunken 1770 caravel Swift. The location of the wreck discovered deseadensische young people in 1982. Since then, the " Swift" is explored under the supervision of ICOMOS and raised individual parts.
Puerto Deseado is the garrison of the 9th Panzer Regiment " General José Gervasio Artigas ," the Argentine Army.
History
The almost 32 km long harbor was already used by Ferdinand Magellan and other early navigators. Magellan called the place in 1520 " Bahía de los trabajos ," the pirate Francis Drake went on May 17, 1578 at anchor there and christened the place " Bahía de las Foca ". On December 17, 1586 Thomas Cavendish reached the estuary of the Río Deseado with its flagship Desiré, accompanied by the ships Hugh Gallant and content. He named the harbor " Port Desire ," the headland at the entrance of the harbor is still called " Punta Cavendish ". The British were met with some Indians who violated some team members with arrows. After 10 days, Cavendish left the port and returned to 1588 to Great Britain. 1591 he started another expedition with five ships, where he during the Desiré of Captain John Davis was commanded as admiral on the Galleon Leicester drove. They could because of the winter, the Strait of Magellan not cross and turned back. On May 20, 1592 Desiré and the Black Pinnace lost contact with the other ships and walked in Port Desire, in order to wait for Cavendish. However, this did not come, and as the two ships sailed in August to the nearby Penguin Island and then on to the south. There they were caught in a storm and finally reached the first Europeans proven the Falkland Islands.
On December 16, 1615 Dutch captain Willhelm Schuiten Puerto Deseado was launched. It burned one of his ships, the " Horn ". After this ship he later renamed the southern tip of Tierra del Fuego, Cape Horn.
In 1670 John Narborough came to Port Desire and claimed the area for England. Captain John Byron ran out in the 1760s from Port Desire to take the Falkland Islands for the British in possession. In a Spanish attack in 1770 was the Swift one of the British ships, who had to flee from the port. However, when she returned, she ran aground and sank. Since then, the wreck lay in the harbor of Port Desire.
The port remained in operation and the arrival of the HMS Beagle on December 23, 1833 Perhaps the most famous visitor to the city went ashore, namely the young scientist Charles Darwin. The crew of the Beagle lingered longer time in Puerto Deseado, as the city was called from the Argentine independence. The official foundation took place on 15 July 1884 a group of colonists under the command of Capitán Antonio Oneto.
Traffic
Puerto Deseado is by an approximately 120 km long access road to the National Road 3 ( Buenos Aires - Ushuaia ) connected. Previously there was a railway connection with Las Heras at the headwaters of the Río Deseado. With the construction of the line began in 1909, In 1978, she was decommissioned.