Mercedes--Gaucho Land
September 1st 2010 From the fabulous, remote wetlands of the Esteros de Ibera and the tiny town of Carlos Peligrini, I took the cheapest option out of town and arrived in the small, sweet gaucho town of Mercedes (population 32,000). This was a working, not a tourist, town, so only some of the early 20c buildings had been spruced up while others were in various states of decay. Yet it was clean and graffiti free, som
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