Las Toninas
Las Toninas | ||
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CPA Base B 7106 | ||
| Area code | +54 2246 | |
| Website | http://lacosta.gob.ar/lugares_interes?localidad=5496 | |
Las Toninas is a town in
Overview
Founded in 1960, Las Toninas was christened in honor of the Commerson's dolphin (known locally as a tonina). The shore had been the site of a shipwreck in 1883 of a commercial vessel registered in the British Empire, whose captain settled nearby and established the Estancia Los Ingleses.[1]
The shore at Las Toninas is distinguishable from its sister communities' by the extensive growth of tamarix bushes. These were used to create a hedge maze as a tourist attraction, and the 6,400 m2 (16,000 ft2) maze is touted locally as the nation's largest.[2]
Las Toninas is also known as the "Fiber Optical Capital" in Argentina;[citation needed] because it is the single point where submarine optical fiber networks reach Argentina via several landing cable stations, by companies such as Level 3 (with its SAC ring), TIWS (Atlantis 2), Telecom-Antel (Bicentenario cable system), and Telefónica (SAM 1). The town was chosen because its coastline was not as rocky as others in the region.[3]
Notes and references
- ^ Viajo por Argentina: Ruta Provincial 11 (in Spanish)
- ^ "Crónica de una visita al laberinto de Las Toninas (Argentina) (Chronicle of a visit to the Las Toninas Maze)" (in Spanish). October 2007. Archived from the original on 11 October 2012.
- ^ Bederman, Uriel (4 June 2015). "Las Toninas: la puerta submarina por la que el país se conecta a Internet". La Nación (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 4 June 2015.
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