Gaiman

Gaiman lies in the lower valley of the Chubut, where the river cuts a green corridor through the dry Patagonian steppe. Its Indigenous name is commonly interpreted as “whetstone.” Tehuelche travellers stopped in this valley on journeys between the Andes and the coast. On a prominent hill north of Gaiman, the burial site of Loma Torta preserves evidence of the hunter-gatherer communities who lived in the region during the centuries before the valley's later settlement.