Viedma, Argentina Community

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Viedma, Argentina

Viedma is located on the main road down the coast from Buenos Aires en route to Ushuaia, and is the location of the Argentina HU Travellers Meeting every year.

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A PowerPoint presentation on the "desolation of Argentina" - great photos.

Click for larger scale map of Viedma region of Argentina

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Aerial photo of Viedma and Patagones, twin cities founded by Francisco de Biedma. In 1879 was made the first Patagonic government here in Viedma.

Viedma from Patagones

Oscar Knecht, the founder of the HU Viedma Community works here

A little village 30 km from Viedma, you can see a lot of the beach and the beginning of the steep and this is like this in almost all the Patagonic coast.

Marine lighthouse, the first in the Patagonia Argentina

In Viedma there is a row-boat school, and you can rent a boat for sailing

In the beach of Viedma, the sea lions are near the people... no problem!

50 km from Viedma there is a sea lion colony near 3000 of them

The sea lions are married and they modelled for the photo!!

A friend's old BMW, an R75 model 1972

l to r: Oscar Torno with his Suzuki 900 R; Hugo Barrio Honda XX Super Black Bird 1100; Lalo, Kawasaki ZX9R; Iván, Yamaha 250 custom, not in the photo, Busta, ,Honda Magna 750 not in the photo; Oscar Knecht and his Kawasaki ZX-10.

Walter Barion, a German translator, Oscar Knecht and his doughter Florencia, and Philipp Jokisch, passing through on his trip to Ushuaia

Osacar Knecht, "making a creole asado, this face is only for the photo :-) "



 

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