Cities and towns in Argentina Dolavon Province Chubut Department Gaiman Location 43°18′ S 65°42′ W Elevation 27 m AMSL Population 2,929 Phone code +54 2965 CPA base U9107

Dolavon is a small town in the Patagonian province of Chubut, Argentina. This is a list of cities in Argentina. For a more exhaustive list of cities in a particular province see the main article linked to in each applicable section For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. Regions See also Geography of Argentina The country is also divided into six or seven regions (seven when The Pampas is divided into the Pampas' plains Chubut ( Spanish: Provincia del Chubut Welsh: Talaith Chubut a Province in the southern part of Argentina, that lies between the Departments (departamentos form the second level of administrative division in the Provinces of Argentina. Gaiman Department is a department of Chubut Province in Argentina. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. The metre or meter is a unit of Length. It is the basic unit of Length in the Metric system and in the International The term above mean sea level ( AMSL) refers to the Elevation (on the ground or Altitude (in the Air) of any object relative to the In Biology a population is the collection of inter-breeding organisms of a particular Species; in Sociology A telephone numbering plan is a plan for allocating Telephone number ranges to countries regions areas and exchanges and to non-fixed telephone networks General phone calls within Argentina In Argentina, changes were made to area codes in 1999 when the telephone network was split up into three different areas with The Argentine postal code is a system that assigns at least one unique alphanumeric Postal code to each Municipality. ISO 3166-2AR is an ISO standard which defines Geocodes it is the subset of ISO 3166-2 which applies to Argentina. Llao LLaojpg|thumb|250px| Lake Nahuel Huapi, near Bariloche, Argentina Regions See also Geography of Argentina The country is also divided into six or seven regions (seven when The Pampas is divided into the Pampas' plains Chubut ( Spanish: Provincia del Chubut Welsh: Talaith Chubut a Province in the southern part of Argentina, that lies between the For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. It has a population of 2,929 according to the 2001 census [INDEC]. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. A census is the procedure of acquiring information about every member of a given population National Statistics and Censuses Institute ( Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos, INDEC is the Argentine government agency responsible It is located close to the Chubut River, about 19 km to the west of Gaiman. The Chubut River ( Spanish, Río Chubut) is a river in Patagonia, Southern Argentina. Gaiman is a town in the Chubut Province of Patagonia in Argentina. The name comes from Welsh dôl (meadow) and afon (river). Welsh ( cy Cymraeg or cy y Gymraeg, kəmˈrɑːɨɡ and {{IPA|[ə ɡəmˈrɑːɨɡ]}}, is a member of the Brythonic branch of Celtic Welsh immigrants began to settle in the area after their arrival in Patagonia in 1865. The Welsh settlement in Argentina began in 1865 and occurred mainly along the coast of Chubut province in the far southern region of Patagonia The Central of Chubut Railway arrived in 1915, linking the settlement to Trelew, and the town was officially founded in 1919. The Central of Chubut Railway (in Spanish Ferrocarril Central del Chubut) was a British-owned company that built and operated a Metre gauge railway line in the Trelew is a city in the province of Chubut, in the Argentine Patagonia, with a population of 93386 as per the. Dolavon became a centre of wheat production using irrigation canals to compensate for the arid climate. Irrigation is an artificial application of water to the soil usually for assisting in growing crops The old flour mill with its water wheel is now a museum. A gristmill or grist mill is a building where Grain is ground into Flour, or the grinding mechanism itself A water wheel is a means of extracting power from the flow (or fall of water otherwise known as Hydropower.

According to plans announced in November 2006, Dolavon will be the site of important energy generation facilities by mid-2008: a combined cycle power plant (with an output of between 330 and 465 MW) and a wind farm (100 MW). A combined cycle is characteristic of a power producing engine or plant that employs more than one Thermodynamic cycle. A wind farm is a group of Wind turbines in the same location used for production of electric power [1]

External links

• Dolavon website
• Dolavon at ArgentinaXplora. com.
• Municipal information: Municipal Affairs Federal Institute (IFAM), Municipal Affairs Secretariat, Ministry of Interior, Argentina.

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