Domar los Ríos (2017) User Reviews

108 years of history of Patagonia on 40 minutes

[juaneduardorc · 10/10 · 5 May 2018]

I think you´ll find documentary "Taming the Rivers" (Domar los Ríos) is a breaking point in history of Patagonia filming, both in content and story-telling. This is the first web series to be premiered on actual real cinema theaters in Neuquén, a huge urban conclave settled between the oil-rich based desert and the frutal HIgh Valley of the Negro River, with thousands of irrigated acres. This transformation is the key of the history of the argentinians states of Neuquén and Río Negro. In 1899 President Julio A. Roca designed a century-long plan to keep for the new Nation the entry of the Patagonia. The key was the water. Four brave rivers cross Patagonia: Neuquén, Limay, Negro and Colorado. Taming them, it was possible to build cities which today reach up to one million population. It´s clear the hardest part of telling this history in a web serie is the synthesis. We are talking about the dozens of ramification that a construction like this brings to a land. Immigrants, planification, engineers... Taming the Rivers show in the mirror of the rivers the true identity of Neuquén and Río Negro.