Napostá Grande Stream is located in the region of Bahía Blanca , Buenos Aires Province , Argentina
6-609: It is a stream whose watershed is in Sierra de la Ventana , about 120 kilometres (75 mi) northeast to Bahía Blanca. It was essential during the early history of the city of Bahía Blanca as a source of water and also as a natural defense against aborigine. Later on it was useful as a water supply for agriculture. It drains to the Atlantic Ocean reaching the Estuary of Bahía Blanca . It forms meanders before and as it enters
12-477: A population of 1,819 inhabitants (2001 census [ INDEC ] ), it is one of the most attractive tourist centres in the Province and has numerous recreation areas and parks. The town, originally called Villa Tívoli Argentina , was founded on 17 January 1908 by Diedrich Meyer and developed around the railway station. It was later renamed Sierra de La Ventana after the nearby 1,186 m rocky peak La Ventana , part of
18-524: The Sierra de la Ventana mountains, which has a natural rock formation containing an opening or 'window' 9 m wide and 11 m high. In 1959 the peak was declared a Natural Monument. A large, luxurious hotel resort, Club Hotel de la Ventana , was opened in 1911 near Villa Ventana, 17 km from the town. For a brief period, it attracted the rich and famous but soon suffered from the effects of World War I in Europe and closed in 1920. Between 1940 and 1946 it
24-608: The city 38°47′31″S 62°14′18″W / 38.79183563201333°S 62.238242343742755°W / -38.79183563201333; -62.238242343742755 This article related to a river in Argentina is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sierra de la Ventana Sierra de La Ventana is a village in Tornquist Partido in the southwest of the Province of Buenos Aires , Argentina. With
30-400: The city although it has been piped shortly thereafter to create a greenspace named Paseo de las Esculturas , and a very interesting urban area by which properties increased substantially their price since then. Napostá is heavily contaminated distally, even before reaching the city, probably due to techniques of fertilization carried out in the areas which form its watershed, especially close to
36-511: The city in the area of Club de Golf Palihue, then Parque de Mayo, where a weir has been built at a natural split, to avoid flooding after heavy rains in Ventana mountain range . If flow increases enough and the level of the stream surpasses the weir, water flows also to the alternative branch reaching the estuary through the Maldonado stream. From there downstream it flows naturally through
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