Tag: Bariloche

• Saturday, October 23rd 2021 - 08:21 UTC

  World Travel Awards highlight Bariloche and Cancún

  

  The Argentine city of Bariloche has received a special mention at the World Travel Awards (WTA) while the entire country was chosen as a “South America's leading destination,” it was announced during a ceremony in Dubai.

• Monday, July 22nd 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Bariloche airport reopens after closing Saturday due to heavy snow in west Argentina

  

  The international airport at the Argentine winter sports resort of Bariloche resumed operations Sunday morning following a decision to close it Saturday due to heavy snowing despite a record-setting peak season demand .

• Wednesday, December 12th 2018 - 18:55 UTC

  Environmentalists seek legal injunction to stop pollution of Lake Nahuel Huapi in Bariloche

  

  Lake Nahuel Huapi has been receiving around 75 million litres of untreated sewage for the past three days due to the maintenance and removal of materials in the Elevator Station of the Wastewater Treatment Plant in Bariloche and environmentalist organisations have already filed for an amparo remedy to stop the spill.

• Wednesday, October 24th 2018 - 12:50 UTC

  Mapuche demands freeze Chinese wind energy project for Bariloche

  

  A Chinese renewable energy investment in Patagonia was halted after no agreement could be reached with the small mapuche community living where the wind turbines were going to be installed.

• Thursday, October 11th 2018 - 08:44 UTC

  Argentina attracting more tourists while less Argentines travelling overseas

  

  The number of incoming tourists to Argentina is increasing month after month since the drastic devaluation of the local currency, while outgoing tourism has dropped significantly. According to the latest release from the country's stats office, Indec, 224.000 tourists arrived in Argentina during August, 7.4% more than a year ago, while residents travelling overseas dropped 11.9%, to 335.300.

• Saturday, April 25th 2015 - 05:58 UTC

  Volcano ashes fog Buenos Aires and blanket several Patagonian provinces

  

  The eruption of Chile’s Calbuco volcano has resulted in a cloud of ash beginning to spread on Friday into the City of Buenos Aires while the alert in southern cities of Argentina remains.

• Sunday, October 13th 2013 - 11:47 UTC

  Argentina will not accept the remains of Nazi officer Erich Priebke

  

  Argentina will not accept the remains of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke who died in Italy, officials in Buenos Aires said on Friday. Priebke died in Rome aged 100 after serving nearly 15 years under house arrest for a World War II massacre in Italy for which he never expressed remorse.

• Friday, December 21st 2012 - 00:12 UTC

  Buenos Aires sends Border guard to contain rioting and looting in Bariloche

  

  The Argentine government is deploying four hundred border guards to the Patagonian resort of Bariloche following violent looting in several local supermarkets and other businesses on Wednesday. Cabinet Chief Juan Manuel Abal Medina made the announcement on national television.

• Wednesday, October 17th 2012 - 20:57 UTC

  Mapuche protest in Bariloche demand removal of statue of “the man guilty of the greatest genocide”

  

  Members from the indigenous Mapuche community in Patagonia protested angrily at the south Argentina resort of Bariloche demanding that a statue in honour of President General Julio A Roca be removed since “he was responsible for the greatest genocide in our history”.

• Monday, June 4th 2012 - 22:38 UTC

  Bright side of the Puyehue eruption: volcanic ash bricks and natural insecticides

  

  Argentine scientists developed bricks and are analyzing the possibility of making natural insecticides with the ashes from the Chilean Puyehue volcano eruption which this month a year ago covered several cities in Patagonia and caused millions of dollars losses, sources of the University that coordinates the studies announced.