Bariloche - an optimistic future built on a troubled past Beside Nahuel Huapi, one of Argentina´s great lakes, and on the border of the Chilean Andes, lies the city of San Carlos de Bariloche. Although its inhabitants number only around 150,000, Bariloche is still the largest town for many hundreds of miles around. Its nearest neighbours, San Martin de Los Andes, Junin de Los Andes and Villa de Angostura, consist of little more than a few blocks loosely arranged around one or two main streets, in the steppe or amongst the forest, of the surrounding national parks. Travellers from Buenos Aires face a westward journey of almost 24 hours, first through the wide and spacious pampas, and then through the foothills, scrub and winding rivers of Rio Negro Province. While to the south of the city
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