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The prevailing winds are westerly, and the westward slope has a much heavier precipitation than the eastern in a rainshadow effect; [33] [17] the western islands close to Torres del Paine receive an annual precipitation of 4,000 to 7,000mm, whilst the eastern hills are less than 800mm and the plains may be as low as 200mm annual precipitation. On 21 May 2014, YPF also announced the first oil and gas discovery in the D-129 shale formation of the Golfo San Jorge area in Chubut, and on 14 August 2014, the first shale oil discovery in yet another Cretaceous formation in the Neuquén basin, the Valanginian/Hauterivian Agrio formation; see "YPF confirmó la presencia de hidrocarburos no convencionales en Chubut".

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Fossils of the mid-Cretaceous Argentinosaurus, which may be the largest of all dinosaurs, have been found in Patagonia, and a model of the mid- Jurassic Piatnitzkysaurus graces the concourse of the Trelew airport (the skeleton is in the Trelew paleontological museum; the museum's staff has also announced the discovery of a species of dinosaur even bigger than Argentinosaurus [24]).Patagonia is divided between Western Patagonia (Chile) and Eastern Patagonia (Argentina) and several territories are still under dispute and claiming their rights. Over the years the use of the language started to decrease and there was relatively little contact between Wales and the Chubut Valley. In 2004 the Welsh speakers in Argentina asked the Welsh government to provide them with Welsh TV programmes to encourage the survival and growth of Welsh in Patagonia. Human habitation of the region dates back thousands of years, [40] with some early archaeological findings in the area dated to at least the 13th millennium BC, although later dates around the 10th millennium BC are more securely recognized.

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In 1875 the Argentine government granted the Welsh settlers official title to the land, and this encouraged many more people to join the colony, with more than 500 people arriving from Wales, including many from the south Wales coalfields which were undergoing a severe depression at that time. Unfortunately, they found that Patagonia was not the friendly and inviting land they had been led to believe. Patagonia has always been Argentina's main area, and Chile's only area, of conventional oil and gas production. They struggled to reach the proposed site for the colony in the River Chubut valley about 40 miles away, and eventually the first permanent settlement was established at Rawson at the end of 1865.

The geological limit of Patagonia has been proposed to be Huincul Fault, which forms a major discontinuity. F), whereas at Bahía Blanca near the Atlantic coast and just outside the northern confines of Patagonia, the annual temperature is 15°C (59°F) and the range much greater, as temperatures above 35 °C and below −5 °C are recorded every year. In 1875, the Argentine government finally granted the Welsh settlers official title to the land, and this encouraged people to join the colony. The visitors in question have travelled 8,000 miles from the Welsh speaking outpost of Patagonia, on the southern tip of Argentina.