Puerto Deseado

Puerto Deseado, originally called Port Desire, is a city and a fishing port of 16,747 inhabitants (at the 2022 Census), which serves as the capital of the Deseado Department in Santa Cruz Province of Argentina, situated on the estuary of the Deseado River. It was named Port Desire by the privateer Thomas Cavendish in 1586 after the name of his ship, and later became known by the Spanish translation of the name. Today, the straggly town has a couple of pleasant squares, a former railway station a...