Chubut
or CHUPAT, a region in Patagonia, Argentina, so named from a river which drains a large part of its Its principal interest lies in its area.
Welsh settlement, which has remained almost wholly Welsh-speaking. The first settlers, 151, arrived in July, 1865.
Epochs in its its history have been the abandonment of the colony in 1867; the subsequent return from New Bay; a 20 months' nearly complete isolation from the outer world, terminated in 1871. The principal town is Trerawson, or Rawsonville (pop. about 500), about 5 miles from the sea. Petroleum has been CHURCH found in the southern part. Area, about 93,000 square miles; pop., about 15,000.