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Village in La Pampa, Argentina
Bernasconi
Village
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Coordinates: 37°54′00″S 63°43′00″W / 37.90000°S 63.71667°W / -37.90000; -63.71667
Country Argentina
Province La Pampa
DepartmentHucal
EstablishedMarch 16, 1888
Elevation162 m (531 ft)
Population
 • Total1,781
Time zoneUTC−3 (ART)
CPA BaseL 3023
Area code+54 2925
ClimateDfc

Bernasconi is a village and the capital of the Hucal Department of La Pampa Province, Argentina.

Name

In 1878, the Argentine state divided the lands in the "desert", granting the territory in question to Don Ernesto Tornquist, who subsequently sold his lands to Alfonso Bernasconi in 1884. In 1888, Bernasconi, seeing that several families had by then settled on his lands, decided to found a settlement, to which he gave his own name.

Local festivals

Fiesta del Piquillín

This is the traditional festival of the locality and dates back to the 1980s. It takes places in March, marking the anniversary of the village's founding, and is organised by the Commission of Culture attached to the municipal authorities. It promotes local crafts and features performances by folk singers of local and national prominence.

Fiesta de los Alemanes

This annual "Festival of the Germans" takes place in October, coinciding with the Octoberfest beer festivals held in Villa General Belgrano in Córdoba, Argentina, and in Blumenau in Brasil. It is organised by the Commission of Descendents of Germans and typically involves a display of local dances and a sampling of regional specialities with a German origin, brought to the region by Volga Germans who had migrated from Russia.

References

  1. "Bernasconi". Retrieved 7 February 2019.
  2. "URIBURU". 2014-04-14. Archived from the original on 2014-04-14. Retrieved 2019-02-26.
  3. "Bernasconi - Provincia de La Pampa - Argentina -". 2009-05-25. Archived from the original on 2009-05-25. Retrieved 2019-02-26.

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