Qualla: Chascomús https://qualla.com/chascomus en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:39:57 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Chascomús https://qualla.com/chascomus Chascomús: Introduction https://qualla.com/chascomus/ The lagoon is the first thing you notice and the last thing you forget. Thirty square kilometers of shallow water lie along the eastern edge of Chascomús, silvering at dawn, ruffling under the pampas wind, drawing sailboats and fishermen and anyone who simply wants to walk its shore. The town grew up facing this water and never turned away from it. But Chascomús began not as a resort, only as a line drawn in the grass: a small fort meant to hold a frontier that did not yet want to be held.

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/w/t/chascomus-wk/69wt-chascom-s-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Chascomús: A Fort on the Edge of the Map https://qualla.com/chascomus/ On the 30th of May 1779, Captain Pedro Nicolás Escribano of the Blandengues cavalry raised the Fortín de San Juan Bautista here, one of the southernmost outposts of Spanish Buenos Aires. This was the far edge of the colonial world, where the open Pampas belonged to its indigenous...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/w/t/chascomus-wk/69wt-chascom-s-a-fort-on-the-edge-of-the-map.mp3 0:06 2 full Chascomús: The Chapel of the Negros https://qualla.com/chascomus/ Among Chascomús's most moving places is a plain brick building called the Capilla de los Negros. In 1861, the town's Afro-Argentine community, organized as a religious brotherhood, asked permission to build a room for their worship and their celebrations, and a year later the cha...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/w/t/chascomus-wk/69wt-chascom-s-the-chapel-of-the-negros.mp3 0:06 3 full Chascomús: Living by the Lagoon https://qualla.com/chascomus/ Modern Chascomús turns its energy back toward the water. The lagoon is built for movement: sailing and windsurfing, jet-skis carving white lines, kayaks slipping along the reedy margins. You can circle the whole shore on foot or by bicycle, and many do, in the long warm afternoon...

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]]> Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/9/w/t/chascomus-wk/69wt-chascom-s-living-by-the-lagoon.mp3 0:06 4 full Chascomús: Echoes of the Republic https://qualla.com/chascomus/ For a small town, Chascomús holds a surprising weight of national memory. It guards the house of Raúl Alfonsín, the president who led Argentina back into democracy after the dictatorship of the late twentieth century, a figure many still regard as the conscience of the modern rep...

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