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Trips and walks


The House Ship: this singular construction is located in the street Argentinean Malvinas between The Argentina and Avenue Frigate Sarmiento. It was built totally in 1954 in material by Luis Novelli who Rome navigated in the ship and it built it to its likeness. This Italian immigrant built it with marked perfection.
Fossil prints: it is a yacimento shovel-icnológico located 2 500 m to the east of the town. The 12 000 year-old fossil prints are printed in the platform of abrasion of the beach, in the arcillo-oozy layers that are covered partially for the discharges tides. They were discovered in the month of October of 1986, after a strong storm. The locations are particularly valuable to obtain data about the conditions paleoambientales of the geologic past, since they constitute a testimony in situ of the locomotion and activities that deployed animals of the Late Pleistoceno, among them Megaterio, Gliptodonte, Toxodon, Macrauchenia. The sector with having raked, that is to say, succession of 3 or more prints assigned to oneself organism, it possesses an approximate extension from 2 500 parallel m to the coast line. The place has been declared from Paleontological interest to provincial level for the Senate of the County of Buenos Aires.
The ship aground: toward the West, when it lowers the tide, "The Sovereign's" remains can be seen, a ship that beached at the end of the XIX century.
The Rocks: it is located to 12 km to the west of Pehuen-Có, it is also known with the name of "Beacon it Mounts Beautiful" or "Ravines of Beautiful" Mount and they have an approximate extension 3 km of cliffs of variable height. Their importance resides in the quality and abundance of the discoveries of vertebrates of the series Plioceno, of an antiquity of about 5 million years. Stands out their historical relevance because there was the first lighthouse of the Argentinean coast and being traveled for scientific as Florentine Ameghino and Charles Darwin.
Fishes: one can fish in the coast or embarked.
Charmed forest: it is located to 5 km of Pehuen-Có and it constitutes an ideal space for the rest. You consents from the entrance round to the village, traveling a later on on the way to 4 km. They are 105 there is forestadas with pines, eucalyptuses and cypresses, result of the effort carried out under the deep conviction of preserving the environment.
Chapel The Sacred Family: it is located in Av. San Martin and Lauquen Mapu and it was designed by the architect Beatriz Marseillán. Their construction was made with stones brought as ballast in the cellars of a called ship "The Sovereign" that beached in the proximities of the spa for whim of the destination and that it becomes visible when it lowers the tide.
The House Mill: it is a private house located in 9 of Julio between Brown and Fitz Roy. It is a building built in form of mill of wind by the writer bahiense Rubén Benítez, in homage to the book Don Cuisse of the Stain.

 

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