In 2003, along with my wife, stopped three days at the Inn Puerto Blest, an arm of Lake Nahuel Huapi, which flows into the mountains almost to the border with Chile. The boat passed us along to an island which is buried a beloved character for Argentina: Perito Moreno. Even today it is the custom of the boats to sound the horn three times in salute.
Mass campaign civic center of Bariloche and ponchos coffin with the chiefs
In 2003, along with my wife, stopped three days at the Inn Puerto Blest, an arm of Lake Nahuel Huapi, which flows into the mountains almost to the border with Chile. The boat passed us along to an island which is buried a beloved character for Argentina: Perito Moreno. Even today it is the custom of the boats to sound the horn three times in salute.
Crowd in Bariloche Civic Center, right the statue of former President Roca
In 2003, along with my wife, stopped three days at the Inn Puerto Blest, an arm of Lake Nahuel Huapi, which flows into the mountains almost to the border with Chile. The boat passed us along to an island which is buried a beloved character for Argentina: Perito Moreno. Even today it is the custom of the boats to sound the horn three times in salute.
In 2003, along with my wife, stopped three days at the Inn Puerto Blest, an arm of Lake Nahuel Huapi, which flows into the mountains almost to the border with Chile. The boat passed us along to an island which is buried a beloved character for Argentina: Perito Moreno. Even today it is the custom of the boats to sound the horn three times in salute.
In 2003, along with my wife, stopped three days at the Inn Puerto Blest, an arm of Lake Nahuel Huapi, which flows into the mountains almost to the border with Chile. The boat passed us along to an island which is buried a beloved character for Argentina: Perito Moreno. Even today it is the custom of the boats to sound the horn three times in salute.
In 2003, along with my wife, stopped three days at the Inn Puerto Blest, an arm of Lake Nahuel Huapi, which flows into the mountains almost to the border with Chile. The boat passed us along to an island which is buried a beloved character for Argentina: Perito Moreno. Even today it is the custom of the boats to sound the horn three times in salute.
Placement slab that covers the remains of Sentinel Island Moreno
In 2003, along with my wife, stopped three days at the Inn Puerto Blest, an arm of Lake Nahuel Huapi, which flows into the mountains almost to the border with Chile. The boat passed us along to an island which is buried a beloved character for Argentina: Perito Moreno. Even today it is the custom of the boats to sound the horn three times in salute.
Seva valdiviana preserved in the Nahuel Huapi National Park
In 2003, along with my wife, stopped three days at the Inn Puerto Blest, an arm of Lake Nahuel Huapi, which flows into the mountains almost to the border with Chile. The boat passed us along to an island which is buried a beloved character for Argentina: Perito Moreno. Even today it is the custom of the boats to sound the horn three times in salute.
In 2003, along with my wife, stopped three days at the Inn Puerto Blest, an arm of Lake Nahuel Huapi, which flows into the mountains almost to the border with Chile. The boat passed us along to an island which is buried a beloved character for Argentina: Perito Moreno. Even today it is the custom of the boats to sound the horn three times in salute.
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In 2003, along with my wife, stopped three days at the Inn Puerto Blest, an arm of Lake Nahuel Huapi, which flows into the mountains almost to the border with Chile. The idea was to make a number of walks that lead to gaps in height between the Valdivian forest there remains pristine. The boat passed us along to an island which is buried a beloved character for Argentina: Perito Moreno. Even today it is the custom of the boats to sound the horn three times in salute. I still was not going to write my book "The limit of lies" but when, Several years later, I wrote the end of the book I had in mind that sunny morning.
The Perito figure may seem, perhaps, "Too" Argentine since he was involved in the demarcation of the border and, using various ruses (very Argentine, certainly), able to accept the offer Argentina. But, beyond the myth and legend, the truth is always Moreno pointed to the border was fair to both parties, only way that there is a lasting peace between these two brotherly countries.
The other reason to remember and honor the Perito is that, lands that the Argentine Government granted, He donated them to the pimer to become national park. Thus was born and therefore preserves the wonder that is the National Park Nahuel Huapicuya head is the famous city of San Carlos de Bariloche.
The venue for his final resting place, Brazo Blest the Lake, in whose heart his remains, witnessed several of his adventures and to remember your last trip, twenty-four years after his death, nothing better to copy the last lines of my book:
San Carlos de Bariloche - January 1944
It coffin of Francisco Moreno Pascasio, Argentina flag-draped, had traveled from Buenos Aires through the Pampas and Patagonia, as he had done so many times. It was a symbol that was a train that will take, as the Perito was the visionary who dreamed of one plying the vast plains of the country.
San Carlos de Bariloche was a small town but the 22 January was huge crowd that gathered to see him off. The coffin was placed in the middle of the Civic Center plaza, to the foot of the monument to Julio Argentino Roca. It seemed that the former president did not want to miss the opportunity to greet, in his last great journey, who was the best defender in the country boundaries.
Aboriginal community members put ponchos Shaihueque chiefs, Catriel and Pincén on his coffin before it was uploaded to Modesta Victoria in the nearby pier
The band started playing the anthem, saluted the military and the rest of the audience singing hard put his hand over his heart. Then several characters said words referring Government, but very few had known. Sixty-eight years after his arrival at the place and very close to where he peaked, first, Argentina flag on the shores of Lake Nahuel Huapi, the Perito Moreno eventually received the homage he had always deserved. Aboriginal community members put ponchos Shaihueque chiefs, Catriel and Pincén on his coffin before it was uploaded to Modesta Victoria in the nearby pier.
He left the ship with an entourage and the town of Perito dismissed with twenty-one guns. The Modesta Victoria continued sailing south and near that old cypress, where he had been taken prisoner, turned to the West for a long and narrow fjord leading into the Cordillera. The Perito knew well that place.
His remains were landed on an island which had built a mausoleum sober. They lowered the coffin, I put in place and a slab covered it. While two men sealed the joints a priest read the Gospel. When completed, made the sign of the cross and all present followed suit, then six riflemen fired into the air and hundreds of birds took flight. Sadly, everyone jumped on the Modesta Victoria. When I started the engine to take back to San Carlos de Bariloche Captain sounded the horn three times, one last salute to the Expert. So fue Francisco that remains in soil that island, thereafter it was called Sentinel Island.
Contacto@GerardoBartolome.com Gerardo Bartolomé traveler and writer is. To learn more about him and his work go to www.GerardoBartolome.com
It really is. In his real burial 1919 Government was none (of another political sign) despite the Perito happened years serving the nation. And 1944 took some justice. One of his "seconds" Eduardo Frei was still alive, I recalled with emotion.
Dear Gerardo, I have the honor to be grandson of Perito, as it was called familiarly. Unfortunately my family, a lot of useless, including my mother, never given the space and the place he deserved. He was considered a crazy adventure and this deprived me of my childhood to listen and learn first-hand stories. Today, I turn to people like you, that with the same love of country, compile their adventures to share with those who dreamed it seem a little. To my 13 years, being descended from Perito, the City of Bariloche we took my brothers and my parents Sentinel Island, and accompanied by a guide, allowed us to disembark. I remember it as something exciting. Thanks for keeping his memory alive.
The true character to size , laborious , scholar and simply brilliant, in a short note to refer almost exclusively to the'' tricks'' 'does not seem right and worse family who he says he does not refer to this topic. The Perito Moreno was above all a man of great intelligence , I use on behalf of his people and Latin America , to make it clear the limits and so fascist governments hold both nations knew from their respective oligarchies (Chile and Arghentina) have no excuses for war
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Paula
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What exciting story!
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Gerardo Bartolomé
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It really is. In his real burial 1919 Government was none (of another political sign) despite the Perito happened years serving the nation. And 1944 took some justice. One of his "seconds" Eduardo Frei was still alive, I recalled with emotion.
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Ramiro Quiroga
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Dear Gerardo, I have the honor to be grandson of Perito, as it was called familiarly. Unfortunately my family, a lot of useless, including my mother, never given the space and the place he deserved. He was considered a crazy adventure and this deprived me of my childhood to listen and learn first-hand stories. Today, I turn to people like you, that with the same love of country, compile their adventures to share with those who dreamed it seem a little. To my 13 years, being descended from Perito, the City of Bariloche we took my brothers and my parents Sentinel Island, and accompanied by a guide, allowed us to disembark. I remember it as something exciting. Thanks for keeping his memory alive.
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Enrique
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The true character to size , laborious , scholar and simply brilliant, in a short note to refer almost exclusively to the'' tricks'' 'does not seem right and worse family who he says he does not refer to this topic. The Perito Moreno was above all a man of great intelligence , I use on behalf of his people and Latin America , to make it clear the limits and so fascist governments hold both nations knew from their respective oligarchies (Chile and Arghentina) have no excuses for war
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