Qualla: San Martín de los Andes https://qualla.com/san-martin-de-los-andes 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: San Martín de los Andes https://qualla.com/san-martin-de-los-andes San Martín de los Andes: Introduction https://qualla.com/san-martin-de-los-andes/ The argument was over which way the water flowed. Because Lácar Lake drains west into the Pacific rather than east across the Andes, Chile contended that this whole valley should be Chilean. Argentina answered the only way borders were settled in 1898: it sent soldiers. On 4 February of that year, a military expedition under Colonel Celestino Pérez founded a frontier outpost on the lake's eastern shore to make the claim permanent. That outpost became San Martín de los Andes, and the town still carries the geometry of that decision, a settlement built to hold a line that nature seemed to have drawn the other way.

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