Comodoro Rivadavia

The city of Comodoro Rivadavia is the head of the Escalante department, in the province of Chubut. It is located at the midpoint of the semicircle that forms the coastline of Golfo San Jorge, located 384.4 km south of Rawson, capital of the province of Chubut. With a circumscription that has an area of 548.2 km2 and a coastline of approximately 36 km, it is the most important town in Southern Patagonia, influencing directly through multiple functional, economic, social, and cultural interactions on the cities of the south of the province of Chubut and of the north of the province of Santa Cruz. The current configuration of urban space is the result of a historical process deeply related to the dominant activity: oil and gas exploitation.