Parera, La Pampa Province, Patagonia, Argentina

🇦🇷 Parera is a town in La Pampa Province in Argentina.

History Parera was founded on July 21, 1897. The history of this town is very unique, since despite its undeniable potential for development and production, in addition to becoming one of the first organized nucleations of the provincial septentrion, it ran out of train and for very little it is not without a route. Parera is located in a productive livestock agricultural area, but progress in the past times came hand in hand with the train, since it was the only means of transport to take production to the collecting markets. The railway line that entered La Pampa from the east, arrived in the first year of the twentieth century to Adolfo Van Praet. In Parera, which had been founded four years earlier, a commission of neighbors was formed that traveled to Buenos Aires to ask the Central Government to establish a station there. Lino Pérez, administrator of the Parera family, founder of the town, played a preponderant role in that management. But Nación determined that the route of roads should continue straight, without deviating towards Parera, and leave the province to the west.

If the exclusion in the railway organizational chart was a problem, the same happened with the road layout. Parera is approximately five leagues from the national route No. 35, but the turn to join by asphalt was delayed. Finally one day, the town was linked to national route No. 188, thanks to the paving of the 12 km that separate the two points. In this way it was communicated by the north, but as the only way out, since to the south the provincial No. 9 was still just a consolidated road. This situation was also cumbersome, since - for example - to get to Engineer Luiggi or Caleufú, a detour had to be made that required to travel twice as much mileage. The asphalting of Route No. 9 finally became a reality.

Originally the town was going to be called "El Tordillo", as the whole region was known. But on July 21, 1897, Governor Eduardo Pico, from the former capital of the Central Pampa Territory, that is, General Acha, decreed the foundation and denomination, which had its correlate with the surname of the land owner: Faustino Parera. Before, in 1890 the Court of Peace and the Civil Registry were created, the first being José González, whose first registrations date back to a year later. Until the foundation, González also served as a police authority. The postal service came first, since it was inaugurated in 1896, two years later to be listed as the Post Office. The first educational establishment was school No. 22 and opened its doors on February 15, 1898, under the direction of Rosa P. de la Vega, with a registration number of 58 students. In rural areas, schools No. 151, 152 and 185 were created. The first Municipal Council inaugurated its sessions in 1907, with Pedro Médici as president. Parera also counted from very early on, with the Neighborhood Hospital.

Among the civil entities that accompanied the founding gestation, it is worth mentioning the Spanish Association, founded in 1899. For its part, in 1922 the Parera Recreational Center kicked off. On the sports side, the first institution was the Club Sportivo Pampeano, which began to develop its activities in 1927. Much later, that is, in 1964, his rival, that is, the Argentine Agrarian Club, was born. In 1915, the street lighting service was inaugurated, which had 10 carbide gas streetlights, which were lit every night by Don Carivano, nicknamed precisely "El Farolero".

El Tordillo Museum "El Tordillo" is a multifaceted museum with pieces collected by Omar Rodríguez, which covers areas such as numismatics, archaeology and history, among many others. The museum contains petrified fossils, ostrich eggs, remains of gliptodontes, ammonites that inhabited the Pleistocene of the quaternary period, indigenous stones for domestic use, hunting, tillage instruments, toasts, vessels, ornaments, etc. More than 15,000 coins and banknotes are exhibited in the Numismatics area, also including a collection of badges and medals. There are also elements related to communications, public address, telephones, photographic and cinematographic cameras, an area of agricultural and livestock tools, rakes, drags, knives, weapons, silverware and old industrial tools, among other objects.