Bernasconi is a village and the capital of the
Hucal Department
Hucal is a department of La Pampa Province (Argentina
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of
La Pampa Province
La Pampa () is a sparsely populated province of Argentina, located in the Pampas in the center of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise San Luis, Córdoba, Buenos Aires, Río Negro, Neuquén and Mendoza.
History
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Argentina
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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
Villa General Belgrano is a mountain village at the valley of Calamuchita in the Province of Córdoba in central Argentina. It has 6,260 inhabitants and is named after the independence hero and creator of the Argentine flag Manuel Belgrano.
Hist ...
in
Córdoba, Argentina, and in
Blumenau
Blumenau is a city in Vale do Itajaí, state of Santa Catarina (Brazil), Santa Catarina, in the South Region, Brazil, South Region of Brazil. It is away from the state capital of Florianópolis.
The city was founded by the German chemist an ...
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
The Volga Germans (german: Wolgadeutsche, ), russian: поволжские немцы, povolzhskiye nemtsy) are ethnic Germans who settled and historically lived along the Volga River in the region of southeastern European Russia around Saratov ...
who had migrated from Russia.
References
External links
*{{Commonscatinline, Bernasconi
Populated places in La Pampa Province
Populated places established in 1888
1888 establishments in Argentina