Caleta Córdova is a small village with 638 inhabitants (INDEC, 2001) located in
Escalante Department in the province of
Chubut Chubut may refer to:
* Chubut Province, Argentina
* Chubut River in the Chubut Province
* Chubut steamer duck
The Chubut steamer duck or white-headed flightless steamer duck (''Tachyeres leucocephalus'') is a flightless duck endemic to Argenti ...
, Argentina, at the
Atlantic coast 16 kilometers north of
Comodoro Rivadavia
Comodoro Rivadavia () is a city in the Patagonian province of Chubut in southern Argentina, located on the San Jorge Gulf, an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean, at the foot of the Chenque Hill. Comodoro Rivadavia is the most important city of the San ...
, an economically oil-based city in the province of Chubut. Politically it belongs to the municipality of Comodoro Rivadavia.
The village's inhabitants are almost entirely dependent on the city of Comodoro Rivadavia for all power and food resources. It is home to many oil workers, has an oil-exporting port (the so-called ''monoboya'') and also offers fishing along the village's single bridge as a tourist attraction. There is one station of Argentina's "Prefectura", or coast guard, which operates with several small boats.
In January 2008 a ship lost petroleum near the village and contaminated the coastal zone, which is home to
penguin
Penguins (order (biology), order List of Sphenisciformes by population, Sphenisciformes , family (biology), family Spheniscidae ) are a group of Water bird, aquatic flightless birds. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere: on ...
s and
sea lions.
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in BolsonWeb.com
References
External links
in Elchenque.com
Populated places in Chubut Province
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