Chapter 12The San Matías Gulf describes an immense arc oriented towards the East, and includes the entire Atlantic coast of the Province of Río n***o and part of the north coast of the Province of Chubut. About 25 miles south of the seaside resort of Las Grutas, maps reveal the presence of a tiny spot called El Fuerte or Argentine Fort. It can be accessed by a path that runs along the beach, coming southbound from San Antonio Oeste, in Río n***o, or from Puerto Madryn, in Chubut about 200 kilometers to the south.
The first mention of the site comes from a French cartographer named Victor de Moussy, hired by the Argentine authorities, who in 1859 drew a map of the San Matías Gulf area, in which he located an ``Ancien Fort Abandoneé '' (Abandoned Old Fort) that did not appear in the previo
