Patagonian Welsh

There is also a bilingual Welsh–Spanish language school called Ysgol yr Hendre situated in Trelew, and a college located in Esquel.

The Welsh Institute of Trevelin and Esquel was born from a joint project of the Assembly of Wales, the British Council and the Government of the Province of Chubut.

For 15 years, the plan succeeded in creating a new type of Welsh-speakers in Patagonia (Welsh speakers as a second language, mostly young).

[10] For the 150th anniversary of the colony, an association was created in Trevelin to form the first Spanish-Welsh bilingual school in the 16 de Octubre valley under the name of Ysgol Gymraeg yr Andes, which will be public, but privately managed.

[7] Poetry and literature books have been published since the early years of the colony, while the first newspapers, such as the Y Drafod (bilingual Welsh-Spanish) date from the 1890s.

While R. Bryn Williams, was another prominent writer, who won the presidency of the National Eisteddfod and was also the author of several novels, including Banddos de los Andes.

Meanwhile, Sian Eirian Rees Davies won the Daniel Owen Memorial Prize in 2005 with I Fyd Sy Well, a historical novel about the beginnings of the colony in Patagonia.

When the Welsh settlers arrived in Patagonia, they did not have immediate contact with the Tehuelche or Mapuche natives, who already had their own toponymy for the region.

[17] In the Chubut river valley, some of the toponyms of villages and rural areas arose from the peculiarities of the terrain (such as Bryn Gwyn, "white hill", or Tyr Halen, "salt land"), from the names of the farms donated by the Argentine government, or by a chapel erected in the area (as in the case of Bethesda or Ebenezer).

[16] There are also tributes to people, such as Trelew, where "Lew" is an abbreviation for Lewis Jones;[17] or compound names derived from geographical features (for example, Dolavon, where Dol is meadow or lap[clarification needed] and afon, river) or even from buildings (such as Trevelin, where Tre is town and felin, mill, for John Daniel Evans' flour mill).

[16] In 2015 a project called Gorsedd y Cwmwl emerged, aimed at restoring the original name of the Trono de las Nubes hill given by the first Welsh people who inhabited the 16 de Octubre valley and forgotten by the population, since the mountain is also called La Monja.