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LOBOS
General Information
The main attractive is the Lake, 15 kms from the city where there is a
combination of sportive fishing and nautical sports; Lobos is the ideal
place for rural tourism since it counts with numerous Country Estates
(“estancias”) in diverse styles, French style castles, medieval or
hundred-year-old mansions with all the tourist services needed for
lodging or simply spending a day in the country. Most of these estates
offer walks, carriages and horses, the practice of polo, swimming,
trekking, photo safaris, bird-watching, golf, parachuting and excellent
gastronomy. Distance from the Federal Capital: 100kms.
Brief Historical Outline
Two
parallel processes brought about great changes in the Buenos Aires
Province hinterlands in the 18th Century, one regarding
cattle breeding and the other one , the indigenous population. The
indiscriminate culling of cattle produced the diminishing of wild cattle
and so the relevance of big estates as providers of leather for export
grew. At about the same time the Araucanos from Chile started crossing
the Andes and gathering cattle which they would cross back into Chile.
This
situation gradually worsened producing confrontations with the Spaniards
and the struggle would continue until after Independence with the
Conquest of the Desert. This situation regarding frontiers created a
great deal of worry for the authorities who began to occupy the desert
with the aim of conquering it militarily.
In
1752, the famous “Blandengues” battalions were created and three forts
were built: “La Valerosa”, “La Invencible”, and “La Atrevida
Conquistadora” were the names of the battalions. This situation was
consolidated by Viceroy Vertiz and his Frontiers Artillery Commander
Francisco de Betbeze by building or rebuilding forts in 1779 which were
later to become important Provincial localities amongst the San Pedro de
los Lobos Fort.
Don
Jose Salgado who had received land from the Viceroy towards the end of
the 18th Century builds a chapel a little north of the fort
in 1802 where the first Mass services started 9 June 1803. This is how
the current pueblo was born, belonging to the Moron Parish with the
Salgado family as the only inhabitants as the rest of the 141 families
lived scattered in land plots or Estancias elsewhere in the area.
In
1804 Don Ramon de Urquiola, supported by the church’s authority requests
from the Viceroy, the drawing of the pueblo’s limits and land for the
cattle belonging to the church, but had to wait until 1811 when the
limits of the Pueblo de San Salvador de la Guardia del Partido de Lobos
were finally drawn.
Tourism In Lobos
Our Lady of el Carmen Church:
 The
current church was opened in 1906 by Monsignor Terreno, Bishop of La
Plata but was totally finished in 1912.The remains of Don Jose Salgado,
Coronel Domingo S. Arevalo, soldier of Independence and parish priests
Enrique Ferrone, Jose Albertini and Emilio Larrumbe rest here. The
church is 49 mts long and 19 mts wide, has a tower with a height of 37
mts and capacity for 2,000 people. The main altar was made of Carrara
marble and stands out for its beauty.
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