General Enrique Godoy

General Enrique Godoy
General Enrique Godoy
	Municipality and village
Country	Argentina
Province	Río Negro Province
Climate	BWk

General Enrique Godoy is a village and municipality in Río Negro Province in Argentina.[1]

History

After the Conquest of the Desert, president Julio Argentino Roca gave his secretary, Manuel Marcos Zorilla, 15,000 hectares of the aerea that included the present General Enrique Godoy and Villa Regina, which he called "Campo Zorilla" (Zorrilla Field, or fox field). Part of the property was acquired by Spanish physician Avelino Gutiérrez and his mathematician son-in-law Julio Rey Pastor in 1920 for urban development. The train station was innagured in 1924 and the town was named after an expeditioner of the Desert conquest.[2]

Footnotes

Ministerio del Interior (in Spanish)
Floria, Pedro Navarra 1999, p. 138.

References

Floria, Pedro Navarra (1999). Historia de La Patagonia [History of Patagonia] (in Spanish). Ciudad Argentina. ISBN 9789875071131.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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[1] Ministerio del Interior (in Spanish)

[FOOTNOTEFloria,_Pedro_Navarra1999138-2] Floria, Pedro Navarra 1999, p. 138.