Camwy is the Welsh name for the River Chubut in Chubut Province

Chubut Province

Chubut a province in the southern part of Argentina situated between the 42nd parallel south and the 46th parallel south , the Andes range separating Argentina from Chile, and the Atlantic ocean...

, Patagonia

Patagonia

Patagonia is a region located in Argentina and Chile, integrating the southernmost section of the Andes mountains to the southwest towards the Pacific ocean and from the east of the cordillera to the valleys it follows south through Colorado River towards Carmen de Patagones in the Atlantic Ocean...

, Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

. It is named from the Welsh word 'camwy' meaning bending or winding. It rises in the Andes

Andes

The Andes is the world's longest continental mountain range. It is a continual range of highlands along the western coast of South America. This range is about long, about to wide , and of an average height of about .Along its length, the Andes is split into several ranges, which are separated...

 and flows eastwards across the dry Patagonian plains forming a deep gorge, a mini-Nile for an otherwise desert area. The River was the lifeblood of the irrigated field system established by Welsh Settlers from 1865 onwards. The colony was a successful wheat exporting district. There are some 20,000 descendants of the Welsh in Chubut province, and the Glaniad or day of landing is celebrated as a holiday in the Province. The small Welsh speaking community is now part of the local tourist trail and attracts a surprisingly large number of Welsh tourists and organised choirs, and other groups.
The heavy demands on the river mean it no longer floods and dams upstream have reduced the flow to a small river.