Viedma, Argentina

Distance from Bahía blanca  275 Km.
Distance from Bariloche 844 Km.
Distance from Buenos Aires 963 Km.
Distance from Catamarca 1678 Km.

Viedma is the capital of the province of Rio Negro. This city is considered the seat of the oldest colonization of the Patagonia. It was founded in 1779.

Viedma is a town with a beautiful appearance; it has wide streets and avenues with commercial centers and amusement spots. It presents a comfortable hotel installation and diverse nautical and fishing clubs.

There are sites for camping such as: Municipal Sports Center, Nautical Club, Coastline Avenue and Municipal Spa.

How to get to Viedma

Viedma city is connected with the rest of the country by National and provincial roads, being the most important the National Road No. 3 that travel trough the major part of Argentina.

There are different transportation media that offers its services; the city has bus station, a train station and an Airport.

The river has promoted the passengers transportations by motorboats, a unique service provided in both river shores.

It is interesting to visit:

Exhibit Saloon of the Cultural Center
Condor Spa
Loberia
The Grottos Spa
Nahuel Huapi National Park
Catedral Mountain
Pellegrini Lake
Rio Negro - River
San Carlos Bariloche
Nahuel Huapi Lake
Mascardi Lake
Gutierrez Lake
San Pedro Peninsula
Victoria Island
Llao Llao Peninsula
Pañuelo Port

Viedma city has among its principal tourism attractive the ecological tourism in “secano” area, visit the small farms under irrigation located to the city west, visit the Carmen de Patagones city and take a stroll by its streets full of history, make the Negro river cross traveling in comfortable motorboats or by the Catamarán Currú Leuvú, which offers river rides in areas of incredible beauty along the ride you can watch the river fauna. Also you can make a stroll by the river coast and during summer enjoy the Balneario areas.

Pellegrini Lake

Pellegrini lake is a reservoir (artificial lake) originally was a natural depression area, possibly excavated by wind erosion, that was filled with water from a channel that derivates of Neuquén River, to regulate its flow (the river has no natural lakes to perform this important function. The medium profundity is 9,4 meters and the maximum is 18 m. It covers 112 km² and has 1,053×109 m³ volume.

The lake is used in commercial trout fishing and Silver-smelt and also used in sport fishing, recreation and tourism.

El Condor Spa

In El Cóndor Maritime Villa and also in the entire area of influence there are many and varied activities that can be taken, from resting in the calm Patagonia beaches to the most varied adventure sports.

Some of the area attractives is the visit to the Patagonic Lighthouse,  the visit to the parrots colon “barranqueros”, unique in its tipe, as the visit to Punta Bermeja to watch the seawolfs..

Carmen de Patagones

The city is “conurbada” with Viedma city practically since its origin, that’s why the tourism in Viedma includes also Carmen the Patagones city; however, Carmen de Patagones maintain historic characteristics that provides certain peculiarity to the area, the antique main church, and the “maragatos” caves (used as houses in the times the population was founded), the antique major house, and the old train station.

Ferrovial Bridge

The Ferrovial Bridge gathers since the beginnings of XX century Carmen de los Patagones with Viedma. This bridge was built by the argentine state, is a Bascule bridge with wide trocha ancha ways, along lots of time it’s being characterized by being the longest Bascule Bridge in the World.