In Argentinean Patagonia, at the southeast of the Province of Chubut, in the most western point of the San Jorge Gulf, Comodoro Rivadavia City is placed.
It has 230,000 habitants and it is the urban and service center of greater impact in the region. Important international agreements between Argentina and Chile defined as The Head of the Biocean Way , which turns to the city to an important pole of industrial and commercial development.
The city has an important infrastructure of services, with modern hotels, gastronomical establishments of excellent quality, prestigious agencies of receptive tourism and rent of vehicles; interesting museums and an attractive nocturnal life, visiting cinemas, restobars and pubs, discos, casinos, or enjoying numerous artistic spectacles that have appointment throughout the year. The lounges for events are located inside or close the commercial and financial center of the city. A complete net of terrestrial and air transport turn easy the access to the city: The International Airport General Mosconi, has flights to Buenos Aires in only 2 hours and a half, and connections to the principal cities and tourist points of Patagonia. From the Bus Terminal, a wide variety of lines of short and long distance connect Comodoro Rivadavia with the north and the south of the country, and center of Chile.


The city is located between the Patagonian plateau and the sea, sheltered by the rigorous climate. The central area is at the bottom of the Cerro Chenque which height reaches 212 meters. From that place, the panoramic sight is amazing. To the north, the Salamanca Peak, a hill of 575 meters, which perfect conical silhouette is the principal characteristic. The coast has a rough profile, with beach combination of thin sands with rolling stones, protected by cliffs with heights up to 60 meters that fall down of the same coast.


The “black gold” found in December 13th of 1907, gave unquestionable nickname of "National Capital of Petroleum”, supplying a great percentage of crude oil of the national consumption. The typical balance beams, as it is known the pumping units, are stay in the rustic Patagonian plateau. To the landscape the wind mills, a non-conventional resource are added to generate power integrated to the traditional system.



To the oil activity adds the cattle ranch and the fishing. Comodoro is centre of capture of prawns and crabs of appreciated quality, as in the national market as in the outside. The commercial and industrial activity of the city is the greater spread in the region. Among other activities is possible mention:
Chemical manufacture agents, Elaborated Concrete, Salt, Industrial Manufacture of Houses, Shipyard, metallurgical, refrigerated storage, factories and smelting, textile industry, ceramic manufacture of blocks and bricks, cement, among others.
The commercial and industrial activity of the city is the biggest in the entire region.