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El Bolsón: intense search for two women missing since Friday in an area with temperatures close to 0°C

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El Bolsón: intense search for two women missing since Friday in an area with temperatures close to 0°C

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SAN CARLOS DE BARILOCHE. – Two women who made trekking in El Bolsón are intensely sought out from yesterday morning. Authorities began the search operation after tourists did not return to the accommodation they occupied in that city rionegrina. As reported by the provincial government, staff of the Mountain Brigade of the Rio Negro Police, together with the Special Mountain Group (GEAM) of the National Gendarmerie and the volunteer firefighters…See the Story

A Young Woman Is Serious After Being Attacked by an Alcoholized Driver in Patagonia

El Bolsón · El Bolsón

A Young Woman Is Serious After Being Attacked by an Alcoholized Driver in Patagonia

A 21-year-old girl struggles for her life in Bariloche’s zonal hospital after being the victim of a serious traffic accident in the city of El Bolsón, caused by an alcoholized driver. The incident occurred early this Thursday at the intersection of San Martín Avenue and Paso Street, a busy intersection in the center of the Andean town. According to the information collected by Diario RÍO NEGRO, the accident occurred around 1:15 a.m., when a van …Read Article

Four trips to Lof Quemquemtrew

El Bolsón · El Bolsón

Four trips to Lof Quemquemtrew

At the end of 2021, in Cuesta del Ternero, a place near El Bolsón, in the south of Argentina, members of the Quemquemtrew community defended a territory that the Mapuche people lived in before the country existed. They spent months in the mountain, isolated because the police blocked the accesses. This chronicle narrated in the first person portrays the territorial recovery and the solidarity network that accompanies it. I. - There is a dead one…Read Article

Scandal in Patagonia: a woman took the money from a course’s graduates’ trip and was dismissed

A case that generated indignation in the educational community of El Bolsón came to an end without judicial conviction: a woman accused of embezzlement of the funds of the journey of graduates from a primary school was finally dismissed. The amount involved was millionaire and corresponded to the savings of months of effort of students and families who had trusted her. Joana Giselle Méndez, born in Bariloche but resident in El Bolsón, had offere…El Bolsón · El Bolsón See the Story

A neighbor of El Bolsón was seriously injured by fighting the big fire in February and organized a collection to help him.

Rodrigo Seguel, a neighbor of El Bolsón, urgently needs surgery that must be performed on May 15 in Bariloche, and for this he needs to raise $2,200,000. His family and friends launched a solidarity campaign to get the necessary money. Rodrigo was seriously injured in February while collaborating as a volunteer in the fire that affected the area of Mallín Ahogado. Like many neighbors, he spontaneously joined the joint effort with firefighters an…El Bolsón · El Bolsón Read Article

Accident on Route 40: a car got lost and fell into the water near El Bolsón

This Tuesday afternoon, a vehicle that moved from San Carlos de Bariloche to El Bolsón ended up inside the waterbed that links Gutierrez and Guilllelmo lakes, in front of the access to Mount Tronador. For reasons that are still being investigated, the car left the driveway and ended up in the body of water....Accident · El Bolsón Read Article

Mapuche nation. Four trips to Lof Quemquemtrew - Latin American summary

by Denali DeGraf / Latin American Summary, May 5, 2025 At the end of 2021, in Cuesta del Ternero, a place near El Bolsón, in southern Argentina, members of the Quemquemtrew community defended a territory that the Mapuche people inhabited before the country's existence. They spent months in the mountain, incommunicado [...] La entrada Nación Mapuche. Four trips to Lof Quemquemtrew was first published in Latin American Summary.El Bolsón · El Bolsón Read Article

Scandal: El Bolsón public official refused to take the test for handling alcoholized

The Secretary of Culto de El Bolsón, Luis Pérez, starred in a shameful moment when he wanted to evade a traffic control, but he was also arrested and refused to do the alcohol test. There he acknowledged that he did all that because he had drunk alcohol. The man was sanctioned but still did not resign from his position.El Bolsón · El Bolsón See the Story

Fire veterinarians: cured animals and helped hundreds of species in the El Bolsón fire

In January the flames moved forward without ceasing in El Bolsón. They razed with houses, forests and left hundreds of animals injured, disoriented, or dead. When veterinarian Daniela Navarro talks about that moment, she does so with the emotion of someone who lived it in their own flesh because she was one of those who grabbed her medicine kit, she...Species · El Bolsón Read Article

Black Rats Are Spreading The Deadly Hantavirus

In rural Madagascar, the black rat is likely transmitting the deadly hantaviruses to humans. Since the beginning, rats have always […]Lifestyle · El Bolsón See the Story

Isolated by hantaviruses in the mountain range: specialists point out that there is "low incidence and risk of contagion"

The health authorities reported that people who remain in preventive isolation due to a case of Hantavirus in El Bolsón present a very low risk of both developing the disease and transmitting it to others in case of infection. In collaboration with the municipalities and affected families, measures are implemented to contain the situation and prevent new infections. Dr. Pedro Water, director of El Bolsón Area Hospital, indicated that six people …El Bolsón · El Bolsón Read Article