Epecuén The pond or lake is a body of water belonging to the basin system West of the chain-link, in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. La Villa Epecuén, was a town about 500 km from the capital of Argentina, and that was on the lake that bears his name. The water from this particular lake, rich in magnesium and high concentrations of nitrate (at a level similar to the Dead Sea), possessed healing properties, and was quickly discovered by promoting a great trade and tourism depended on the flow, not too frequent lake.
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Carhué Towards 1876 (City near the lake) and Lake Epecuén were virtually unknown, it belonged to the indigenous domain. That was 23 same year when the Lieutenant. Nicolas Coronel Levalle Command established the South Division forces on one of the banks of the lake, and immediately start the foundation of a people, the January 21, 1887, named Adolfo Alsina, the then Minister of War and Marina.
However, Lake Epecuén first reference dates from around 1770, when the pilot of the Royal Navy Paul Zizur takes a journey in search of salt to Salinas Grandes, is who baptizes discovers and Laguna San Lucas. It is said that the chief puelche Carhue (Green Valley or pure heart "), love Epecuen (" Eternal Spring "), a strange miracle cure paralysis by plunging into the great lake that formed the tears of pain from his beloved.
DISASTER HISTORY
With the intention of keeping a constant flow of Lake Epecuén, which chained to other lakes in a complex hydraulic system, had in certain periods, times of drought, which preocubana to investors depended on the waters for tourism, we proceeded in 1979 to build the canal collector Florentino Ameghino This venture cost U $ S 30,000,000 But the lack of additional works of regulation and control of the channel made in the rich rainy periods that occurred as early the eighties began to cause flooding.
temporary solutions were gestures, such as construction of embankments encircling the lake. The situation was becoming increasingly dangerous for the inhabitants of Villa Epecuén, since due to heavy rains that lashed the area in stages, the lake was transformed into something like a tap always open in an enclosed space.
the early hours of November 10, 1985 the earthworks that defended the city since the end of the previous decade gave way and about half the town was submerged. The following year Epecuén was four feet of water in some areas and in 1993 the gap grew again lost forever. Today the water is thirty feet above the level before the flood. Its residents who left settled mainly in Carhué should start a new life there.
inhabitants lost everything, dreams of a business, the fruit of prosperity, homes, schools, hospitals ... but above all their roots, their lives. The town was submerged and in ruins, there were no structures guvernamentales take charge of the situation.
The constant pressure from investors, worried about their money in times of drought, and low government interest in controlling and wanted to manage the flow defy nature. They forgot our place on Earth, our role here, and the care of the exosystem to be done but we want to turn against us. Villa Epecuén flooded ambition.
The families were moved and packaged in 5 times smaller homes in other towns or cities, being homeless, jobless or identity, swelling the poverty belts of the country. there were no quick solutions for families. Were not important. Neither they nor their work or housing situation.
The city cemetery was totally submerged and to this day the living struggle to save the ashes of their loved ones, against the waters and against indifference.
The villagers will mayoríade sued the provincial government. Some claimed 50 percent of the value of the property and they could expect to receive their fair share, but 15 years later. "We got no money, homeless and jobless. It was very difficult. You feel sadness and helplessness because they could have been avoided." Lamented Richard Zappia, another former resident, sitting on the rubble that was his hotel.
The people remain even today, partially submerged, the waters recede and leave behind the memory of what it was. The ruins emerge as a warning from nature to humanity.
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