General Enrique Godoy

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

General Enrique Godoy
General Enrique Godoy
Municipality and village
Country Argentina
ProvinceRío Negro Province
ClimateBWk

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
  1. Ministerio del Interior (in Spanish)
  2. 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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