Cholila, Argentina is a town located in

Cushamen Department Cushamen is a Departments of Argentina, department located in the north west of Chubut Province in Argentina. The provincial subdivision has a population of about 17,000 inhabitants in an area of 16,250km², and its capital city is Cushamen. T ...

Chubut Province Chubut ( es, Provincia del Chubut, ; cy, Talaith Chubut) is a province in southern Argentina, situated between the 42nd parallel south (the border with Río Negro Province), the 46th parallel south (bordering Santa Cruz Province), the Andes ra ...

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. It is located in

Patagonia Patagonia () refers to a geographical region that encompasses the southern end of South America, governed by Argentina and Chile. The region comprises the southern section of the Andes Mountains with lakes, fjords, temperate rainforests, and gl ...

. The population of the town in 2010 was 1,560 and its elevation above sea level was Cholila is located a few hundred meters from

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Lake, also called Lago de los Mosquitos, in surface area. Cholila sits at the foot of the

Andes The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountains (; ) are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America. The range is long, wide (widest between 18°S – 20°S ...

Lake Cholila Lake Cholila (Lago Cholila) is a lake in Chubut Province, Argentina. Lake Cholila is the uppermost of several large lakes in the Futaleufú River system of Argentina that via Yelcho Lake and the Yelcho River flows into the Pacific Ocean in Chile. ...

is located in a straight line distance west north-west of the town.

Climate

Cholila has a Csb climate (Mediterranean temperate, warm dry summers, cool wet winters) by the

Köppen climate classification The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notabl ...

system. The climate is classified as Cslk (Mediterranean temperate, mild summers, cool winters) by the

Trewartha climate classification The Trewartha climate classification (TCC) or the Köppen–Trewartha climate classification (KTC) is a climate classification system first published by American geographer Glenn Thomas Trewartha in 1966. It is a modified version of the Köppen ...

Butch Cassidy

The American outlaw

Butch Cassidy Robert LeRoy Parker (April 13, 1866 – November 7, 1908), better known as Butch Cassidy, was an American train and bank robber and the leader of a gang of criminal outlaws known as the "Wild Bunch" in the Old West. Parker engaged in crimina ...

, his partner, the

Sundance Kid Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (1867 – November 7, 1908), better known as the Sundance Kid, was an outlaw and member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch in the American Old West. He likely met Butch Cassidy (real name Robert Leroy Parker) during a huntin ...

, and Sundance's girl friend

Etta Place Etta Place ( , ?) was a companion of the American outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy and Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, alias Sundance Kid. The three were members of the outlaw gang known as Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch. She was princip ...

bought a ranch near Cholila in 1901 and lived there until about 1905. Their cabin, north of the village, was visited by travel author

Bruce Chatwin Charles Bruce Chatwin (13 May 194018 January 1989) was an English travel writer, novelist and journalist. His first book, ''In Patagonia'' (1977), established Chatwin as a travel writer, although he considered himself instead a storyteller, i ...

in the 1970s and was in a dilapidated state. In 2007, the cabin was partially restored. Cassidy, Sundance, and Place bought a ranch near Cholila and raised sheep, cattle, and horses. They were apparently forced to sell the ranch and flee because Pinkerton detectives discovered their location. They were tipped off by a local sheriff that Pinkerton agents were coming for them."Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid found a haven in Argentina" (Jan 27, 1898),''Christian Science Monitor'', https://www.csmonitor.com/1998/0127/012798.intl.intl.2.html, accessed 24 Jan 2018

References

{{reflist, 2 Populated places in Chubut Province Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch