Cinco Saltos is a city in the province

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 of Río Negro

Río Negro Province

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, Argentina

Argentina

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, located on the eastern side of the valley of the Neuquén River

Neuquén River

The Neuquén River is the second most important river of the province of Neuquén in the Argentine Patagonia, after the Limay River.The river is born at the northwest of the province at an altitude of 2,300 metres, to be feed by a number of streams through valleys of the lower Andes while advancing...

, near the Pellegrini Lake

Pellegrini Lake

The Pellegrini Lake is an artificial lake located on the Argentine Patagonia, in the province of Río Negro, near the city of Cinco Saltos, at approximately and 270 m above mean sea level....

, about 20 kilometres (12.4 mi) from northwest of Neuquén

Neuquén

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 and 25 kilometres (15.5 mi) from Allen

Allen, Río Negro

Allen is a city in the province of Río Negro, Argentina. It has 26,083 inhabitants as per the . It is located on the left-hand side of the Alto Valle of the Río Negro, near its beginning in the confluence of the Neuquén and Limay rivers, about west of General Roca and east of Neuquén.Allen was...

. It has 19,819 inhabitants as per the .

The name Cinco Saltos (literally "Five Jumps") refers to the five level steps of the canal

Canal

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 that starts upstream at the Ingeniero Ballester Dam

Ingeniero Ballester Dam

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and passes by the eastern limit of the city.

History

The first settlers came to this land in 1914. At first the layout of the town was made in the area north of the railroad, but in 1918 floods covered such lots and prevented further building. On September 16, 1925 formed the Village Development Committee. During the early years, the city did not have health care, safe medical mobile, just on 3 January 1960, it opened the local rural hospital, with the presence of the then Governor Edgardo Castello. The city's growth was boosted by the creation of the plant production of caustic soda, chlorine and vinyl chloride monomer. This factory has improved the income of ordinary workers and professionals, facilitated the creation of the Industrial School No. 1 "Dr. Armando Novelli, Chemical orientation, but (as ratified several Council reports of Ecology and Environment - CODEMA River Journal Black 06.04.1921 - National Ecological Action Network) has caused pollution, although in 1992 the company filed for bankruptcy, and in 1995 closed its doors, causing a large depression in the city job, and emigration workers in the city. For 2004, the population began to increase due to the change in oil exploration and exploitation, using professionals in the city, and otherwise serving as a city of residence of the complex population Neuquén (Capital).

Mystery

Cinco Saltos is a very strange city, has its legends and mysteries. It is also the fifth most haunted city in the world by the television channel Infinity. Some of his best-known mysteries were in the Pellegrini Lake for example, tells the story that the baby drowned in the lake for over 50 years and that his ghost is still there, if you go at night to the lake and removed photos can see the ghost. Another mystery was the baby of the cemetery that is fully formed, meaning that her body is not burned to death. And also, it's not a mystery, but there are people who do black magic in a valley behind the town. Not forgetting the UFO sightings in the Pellegrini and The Arroyones. And although not a mystery but it adds another flavor, is knowing that the walls are no fossils of dinosaurs to which we must protect, promote conservation projects declaring the site as an area of paleontological research.

Etymology

The town's original name was La Picasa, a horse hair Picaza baguala who roamed the area. Years later, at the opening of the railway station, it was named Cinco Saltos, referred to the falls of the canal that run near the same.

Population

It had 17,739 inhabitants (INDEC, 2001), representing a decrease of 6.3% compared with 18,931 inhabitants (INDEC, 1991) the previous census. Cinco Saltos population has declined over the last two official censuses. For its population, Cinco Saltos held on 7 th place in the province of Río Negro.