Where to Stay in Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut Province

What is Comodoro Rivadavia known for?

On the Atlantic coast of Chubut in southern Argentina, it grew from an oil strike into the capital of the country's oilfields, and it keeps the wells and museum of the oil that built it, the great winds that give it its name, the bluff of Cerro Chenque above the town, and the petrified forest and sea lions of the coast nearby. The wind blows hard off the sea. Bare steppe rings the town.

What are the main landmarks in Comodoro Rivadavia?

The oil museum is the pride of Comodoro Rivadavia. The National Petroleum Museum, telling the tale of the strike of nineteen hundred and seven, marks the city, out of downtown. A bluff looms over the town.

The great headland of Cerro Chenque rises between the city and the sea, while the wind farms, the petrified forest, and the sea-lion rocks mark the country around Comodoro Rivadavia.

What is the history of Comodoro Rivadavia?

Comodoro Rivadavia was born of oil. Founded as a small port to ship the wool of the steppe, the town changed forever in nineteen hundred and seven, when men drilling for water struck oil instead. The oil made the city.

Argentina's first great oilfield was found here, and Comodoro Rivadavia grew fast as the capital of the nation's oil, its camps and derricks spreading over the steppe. The wind and the sea shaped the town. On its windswept coast Comodoro Rivadavia raised wind farms to catch the endless gales, and it spread along the shore below Cerro Chenque.

The coast held old wonders. Down the shore lay a forest turned to stone and colonies of sea lions on the rocks, and the town became the great city of the Patagonian coast, keeping its oil, its wind, and its steppe. The derricks still pump on the hills.

Comodoro Rivadavia keeps its oil coast in Patagonia.

Where is Comodoro Rivadavia?

Comodoro Rivadavia lies on the coast of Chubut in southern Argentina, on the gulf of San Jorge. The city sits between the sea and the bluff of Cerro Chenque, on the dry windswept steppe of Patagonia, with the Atlantic to the east and the bare tableland rolling west toward the Andes. Wind sweeps the open steppe.

The sea beats the shore.

What is the climate of Comodoro Rivadavia?

Comodoro Rivadavia has a cool, dry steppe climate. Mild summers and cold winters cross the coast, with strong winds all year and little rain on the dry Patagonian steppe. The wind never rests.

Cold blows up from the south.

How do you get to Comodoro Rivadavia?

Comodoro Rivadavia lies on the coast of Chubut in southern Argentina, far down Patagonia. Flights land from Buenos Aires down the coast, and the highway runs along the shore. Oil trucks work the fields.

Buenos Aires lies far to the north.