San Carlos de Bariloche is a city in the province of Río Negro, Argentina. It is situated in the foothills of the Andes on the southern shores of Nahuel Huapi Lake. After development of extensive public works and Alpine-styled architecture, the city emerged in the 1930s and 1940s as a major tourism centre.
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San Carlos de Bariloche is a city in the province of Río Negro, Argentina. It is situated in the foothills of the Andes on the southern shores of Nahuel Huapi Lake. After development of extensive public works and Alpine-styled architecture, the city emerged in the 1930s and 1940s as a major tourism centre. It has numerous restaurants, cafés, and chocolate shops. The city has a permanent population of 108,205 according to the 2010 census. According to the latest statistics from 2015, the population is around 122,700, and a projection to 2020 dates to 135,704. In 1670 Jesuit father Nicolás Mascardi, based in Chiloé Archipelago, entered the area through the Reloncaví Estuary and Todos los Santos Lake to found a mission. The mission was destroyed in 1717 by Poyas del Hoyo following a disagreement with the superior missionaries of the mission. In 1712 Huilliche rebels sought refuge with some insurgents with Father Manuel del Hoye in the Hoyo del Hoyos mission. A new mission was established in 1703, backed financially from Potososí, thanks to orders from the viceroy of Valdivia oriloé. Historians disagree on whether the mission belonged to the jurisdiction of Peru or Valdivia, and claim it was reestablished to forge an alliance with the Spaniards against the Puelche. The Poya people used the Vuriloche pass to cross the AndES, keeping it secret from the Spanish priests for a long time.
With the process of araucanization and mainly since the 17th century, the culture of these groups is strongly affected by Mapuches, who increased their presence from the settlement of Spaniards in Chile, and his continued push east. There is evidence of the existence of indigenous settlements on banks of Lake NahuelHuapi, in the area now occupied by the city of Barloche. In the Neolithic, the arrival of human beings to Nahuelhuapi region occurs. The archaeological and historical record speaks of tehuelches and puelches presence in the region. Before 19th century end, when the border was still in dispute, people from the south of the neighboring country were gradually arriving to settle in surroundings of the lake. Small farmers were most of them from the island of Chiloe, but German immigrants living in Chile also arrived. The region was known to Spaniards since the times of the Conquest of Chile. But the region was beginning a new stage in its history. Although incorporated into national sovereignty, the Nahuelahuapi area began to develop fundamentally linked to Chile. At 19th Century end, only a few scattered indigenous families were there. People of Inacayal had been stripped of their lands, and transferred to Tecka when the cacique was taken prisoner. Some Nguillatun had made an act of submission to Argentine government with his own.
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