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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 322 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHUBUT , a territory of the See also:

southern See also:Argentine See also:Republic, See also:part of what was formerly called See also:Patagonia, bounded N. by Rio See also:Negro, S. by See also:Santa Cruz, E. by the See also:Atlantic and W. by See also:Chile. Pop. (1895) 3748; (1904, estimate) 9060; See also:area, 93,427 sq. m. Except for the valleys in the Andean foothills, which are fertile and well forested, and the See also:land along the See also:banks of the Chubut See also:river, which flows entirely across the territory from the See also:Andes to the Atlantic, the See also:country is a barren See also:waste, covered with pebbles and scanty clumps of dwarfed vegetation, with occasional shallow saline lakes. The larger See also:rivers are the Chubut and the Senguerr, the latter flowing into See also:Lake Colhuapi. There are a number of large lakes among the Andean foothills, the best known of which are See also:Fontana, La See also:Plata and See also:General Paz, and, in the interior, Colhuapi or Colhue and Musters, the latter named after the See also:English See also:naval officer who traversed Patagonia in 187o. See also:Petroleum was found at Comodoro Rivadavia, in the S. part of the territory, toward the See also:close of 1907, at a See also:depth of 1768 ft. Chubut is known chiefly by the Welsh See also:colony near the mouth of the Chubut river. The See also:chief See also:town of the Welsh, Rawson, is the See also:capital of the territory, and See also:Port Madryn on See also:Bahia Nueva is its best port. Other colonies have been founded in the fertile valleys of the Andean foothills, but their growth is greatly impeded by lack of transportation facilities.

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