Category: Argentina

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Patagonia hermit

LM Neuquen (Argentine news site) reports astory titled “He left everything to go and live in the Patagonian desert: who is the hermit ofRoute 40.” Thirty-five year old Javier Soto lives in an abandoned astronomical observatory. After conventional city work he decided to drop convention and seek “purpose” in taking care of a family legacy and the gravesite of his uncle in the mmiddle of a steppe in southern Argentina. Decades before Soto’s arrival, grand plans for the observatory station were discussed by scientific and university groups but abandoned fifty years ago. (Article in Spanish)

URL: https://www.lmneuquen.com/patagonia/dejo-todo-y-se-fue-vivir-al-desierto-patagonico-quien-es-el-hombre-mas-ermitano-la-ruta-40-n1226522

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The hermit of Collón Curá

Mejor Informado, an Argentine media site, updates an earlier entry in this blog titled “Argentino Aranea, Argentine hermit,” which related the legacy of the deceased Argentine hermit. He had lived next to a busy highway, but after his passing most of the old dwelling was looted. Today only picture-postcard scene of the hermit’s cottage remain, and Aranea’s ashes still on the grounds of the old house. The new article (Spanish language) is titled “Saquearon lo poco que quedaba en la casa del ermitaño de Collón Curá,”

URL: https://www.mejorinformado.com/regionales/saquearon-poco-quedaba-casa-ermitano-collon-cura_1767722893

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Argentino Aranea, Argentine hermit

from the Argentine local news site El Cordillerano, a short note of remembrance marking five years since the passing of a local hermit named Argentino Aranea, called “the hermit of Collón Cura.” Once a ranch hand, he lived in solitude beside a highway for thirty years, enduring the Patagonian climate without water or power, in a shack of corrugated metal.

URL: https://www.elcordillerano.com.ar/noticias/2024/09/10/197246-se-cumplen-5-anos-del-fallecimiento-del-ermitano-de-collon-cura

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Pedro Luca, Argentine cave hermit

Argentine media source Contexto reports on a Tucuman area cave hermit with the article title: “I want to die in this cave.” It is the cave in which Pedro Luca has resided for sixty years, completely isolated from civilization, and without electricity, running water, telephone, or other electronic device.

Notes the article: “Outside the maelstrom of the city, [Pedro] affirms that he lives ‘fifty thousand times calmer than anywhere else’ and lives with hundreds of animals that, according to him, are his faithful friends. ‘I want to die in this cave, and when I leave, they will realize that I am no longer here because they will not see me anymore,'”

URL: https://www.contextotucuman.com/nota/276108/quiero-morir-en-esta-cueva-asi-vive-pedro-luca-el-ermitano-tucumano.html

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