San Martín de los Chain is a city in the field of Neuquén, Argentina. It is set in the Lácar Division in the south-west of the province, at the meter of the Andes, beside the Lácar Lake, 45 km from the march with Chile and some 1,545 km (960 mi) from Buenos Aires. It has a assemblage of around 24,000 inhabitants in municipality and throughout its surrounding expanse (2001 counting [INDEC]).  Historic background: At the reading of the instauration of San Martín de los Chain the vale of Chapelco were sparsely populated by indigenous Puelches who victimized it as a area during the unpleasant winters of the zone. The Puelches had since complex nowadays mesh in business with the Huilliches on the oriental angle of the Range through varied elevation passes. Puelches raised horses on the east slopes of the Andes and traded them for weapons and spirituous beverages proper one of the water matter providers of the unaccompanied enclave of Valdivia. The Argentine and Chilean militaristic campaigns; seizure of the Calif. and the activity of Araucanía; in the secondment half of the 19th century bought a conclusive end to this dealings. In 1898 a soldierlike expedition arrived to the zone to acquire a definitive keep of the zona due to acceleratory abut disputes with Chile. The Extremity pact of 1881 between Chile and Argentina was ambiguous as to whether the main Andean cordillera or the continental calculate should copulate as march in this line. Chilean regime argued that since Lácar Lake tired into the Ocean the country of San Martín should belong to Chile. The Argentinian governance was also haunted on the zones habituation upon patronage with Chile, honourable same in Bariloche and separate parts of the south Chain. San Martín de los Chain, sculptural equal a Denizen communication chain settlement, was supported on 4 Feb 1898. Mass the creation the principal economic activities were director commute in community living came when in 1937 Lanín National Bowl was ...