Plottier is a city located in the Confluencia Department, in

Neuquén Province Neuquén () is a province of Argentina, located in the west of the country, at the northern end of Patagonia. It borders Mendoza Province to the north, Rio Negro Province to the southeast, and Chile to the west. It also meets La Pampa Provinc ...

, Argentina. The population is 40.000 inhabitants. It is about 15 km from Neuquén City, which turns this city into an important place for the population. Plottier is located near the Limay River and it is crossed by the 22 National Route.

History

The city takes the name from the founder of the city, Dr. Alberto Plottier, an Uruguayan doctor who established an agrarian settlement at the beginning of the century.

Geography

The ground in the valley is wet, composed of

sand Sand is a granular material composed of finely divided mineral particles. Sand has various compositions but is defined by its grain size. Sand grains are smaller than gravel and coarser than silt. Sand can also refer to a textural class ...

gravel Gravel is a loose aggregation of rock fragments. Gravel occurs naturally throughout the world as a result of sedimentary and erosive geologic processes; it is also produced in large quantities commercially as crushed stone. Gravel is classifi ...

s and consolidated limos. Over the hills, the ground is composed by

Pebble A pebble is a clast of rock with a particle size of based on the Udden-Wentworth scale of sedimentology. Pebbles are generally considered larger than granules ( in diameter) and smaller than cobbles ( in diameter). A rock made predomina ...

s denominated tehuelche Pebble. The most old grounds are composed of

sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicat ...

limonite Limonite () is an iron ore consisting of a mixture of hydrated iron(III) oxide-hydroxides in varying composition. The generic formula is frequently written as FeO(OH)·H2O, although this is not entirely accurate as the ratio of oxide to hydroxide ...

s and

clay Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4). Clays develop plasticity when wet, due to a molecular film of water surrounding the clay pa ...

ey where the color is mostly red.

Climate

The medium annual temperatures are between 57,2 °F (14 °C) and 53,6 (12 °C). The amount of water from the rain is less than 300 mm a year and the strong winds of the zone are between 12.42 mph (20 km/h) and 74.56 mph (120 km/h).

History

After the

Conquest of the Desert The Conquest of the Desert ( es, Conquista del desierto) was an Argentine military campaign directed mainly by General Julio Argentino Roca in the 1870s with the intention of establishing dominance over the Patagonian Desert, inhabited primar ...

, the General Julio Argentino Roca asked for lands near the Neuquén river for their strategic military value. These lands were called Colonia Sayhueque. The main economy of the region was the raising of bovine cattle and ovine cattle. In 1916 Plottier was one of the tragic scenarios of the escape of prisoners from Neuquén prison. The engineer Adolfo Plottier was executed by one of the fugitives and the general grocery was looted. Since 1920, the Plottier brothers started selling their lands for the establishment of immigrant settlers. As a result, the colonies el Triángulo, Colonia Suiza, San Eugenio, Viña del Río, San Agustín, y Colonización ferrocarril Sub —an English colony settled on April the 2nd— were formed. On 26 March 1935, Agustín P. Justo, the president of the nation, recognized the formation of the Comisión de Fomento de Plottier, thereby recognizing the municipalization of this community. This date has not only been adopted as the most far-reaching date for the town but it also has been included in the Carta Orgánica Municipal.

Economy

The main production of the zone is agriculture. Apples and pears are the main cultives. Other important activity in this area is the extraction of

petroleum Petroleum, also known as crude oil, or simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations. The name ''petroleum'' covers both naturally occurring unprocessed crud ...

. {{Neuquén - Plottier - Cipolletti Populated places in Neuquén Province