Train fans can check out the imposing English-designed train station off Av Oneto, built by Yugoslav stonecutters in 1908. Puerto Deseado was once the coastal terminus for a cargo and passenger route that hauled wool and lead from Chilean mines at Pico Truncado and Las Heras, located 280km northwest.
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In the center of town, this restored 1898 wagon is famous as the car from which rebel leader Facón Grande prepared the ‘Patagonia Rebellion.’ In 1979 the…
Museo Municipal Mario Brozoski
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Displays relics of the English corvette Swift, sunk off the coast of Deseado in 1776. Divers continue to recover artifacts from the wreck, which was…
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A few blocks west of Vagón Histórico is the attractive Sociedad Española building, c 1915.
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In the center of town, this restored 1898 wagon is famous as the car from which rebel leader Facón Grande prepared the ‘Patagonia Rebellion.’ In 1979 the…
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A few blocks west of Vagón Histórico is the attractive Sociedad Española building, c 1915.
3. Museo Municipal Mario Brozoski
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Displays relics of the English corvette Swift, sunk off the coast of Deseado in 1776. Divers continue to recover artifacts from the wreck, which was…