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Rawson is a city in Argentina and is the capital of Chubut Province since the foundation of the province in 1957. The population is approximately 25,000, making it one of the smallest of Argentina's provincial capitals. Rawson is 1470 km from Buenos Aires, and about 7 km from the coast, near the Peninsula Valdés.
The town was founded on 15 September 1865 by newly arrived immigrants from Wales, and it was named after Dr Guillermo Rawson, the Argentine Interior Minister of the time, who favoured the Welsh immigration. Substantial construction of government buildings in the 1970s resulted in the town being nicknamed "The little Patagonian Brasilia" (La Pequeña Brasilia de la Patagonia).
Rawson's climate is dry, with winter temperatures in the range 0° – 15°C, 10° – 20°C in spring and autumn, rising to a peak of 38°C in summer.
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