CON 93 AÑOS FUE EL ÚLTIMO HABITANTE DE ESTE PUEBLO ABANDONADO | Pablo Novak | Epecuén, Argentina

CON 93 AÑOS FUE EL ÚLTIMO HABITANTE DE ESTE PUEBLO ABANDONADO | Pablo Novak | Epecuén, Argentina

You look very good. No, that’s why when I’m old I won’t pay attention to them anymore, old age hasn’t attacked me yet, I still read all this without glasses and I have enough memory [Music] so I’m old, I’m old, my bones are all over, my hands have

To cut bricks, my knees are worn out. the wheelbarrow millions of bricks made. I saw Epecuén born and I saw him die On Av. de Mayo when I was born there was not a single house the first thing the school was built and when

And when I was 7-8 years old I told my mother that the school was mine, they did it for me Hello friends of my channel I hope you are feeling very well at this moment I am in Epecuen a ghost town that is located 537 km from the city of Buenos [Music] Aires Many years ago this place used to Being visited by tourists from all over the country, it was said that the water of the Lake had healing properties, which is why many people came to this place, thus becoming the main source of income for the inhabitants of this town. A

Great defense protected the inhabitants from the level. irregular of the Epecuén Lagoon but 38 years ago an enormous flow of water brought down the embankment and caused a serious flood throughout the town. Thanks to the fact that the water receded we can see the ruins that remained of the town

Now I am going In search of Pablo who He is the only inhabitant of this place. Is everything okay? How are you? Gaston. Pablo Novak. I traveled several kilometers to see you, can we chat for a little while? Yes, come in…

Did someone come to visit him? No, not today, no one came, neither yesterday, it’s strange that two days have passed… Yesterday they took the opportunity to bathe because it was nice and hot. I wanted to ask you why after everything that happened, you still live here, in Epecuén…

I was born here in 30. Like the tango that Tita Merello sang “I am from 30” I turned 93 years old on January 25, two brothers were born here in a little farm here 1000 meters away. 6 women and 6 men and now we meet on

Father’s Day this year and there are only two of us left, one sister, the youngest lives in Rojas and I am in third place. I have two older sisters, one died in San Vicente, the other died

In Rojas, both of them. I have the oldest one left in Rojas. Do they get together often or every once in a while? No, someone who hadn’t seen her in 10 years came, she was smaller, she’s in Rojas, but then I went to a son’s house,

She took a photo of me with a new Novak that was 4 days old, they didn’t let me take it, they pushed it against me with the chair, They were afraid that I would drop it, so they didn’t finish the last name. How many grandsons do you have? 25 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren

8 or 9, 9 great-grandchildren. One was born in August. In other words, the legacy continues… there are several, and none of them want to come live here?

Hey, no one wants to come? No, my wife died. She turned 91 on June 20. They had a party. She danced a little with her daughter in a club. They had a party.

She turned 91 and died on July 30. He was born in June and died in July. On July 30, he died aged 91. She raised 10 children and 25 grandchildren. She became upset, she became unbalanced, she became nervous, she became deaf, she was very sociable and she was not feeling

Well, but she no longer wanted to live because she was very sociable, she saw people she knew, you saw that the deaf deaf person is tilted, they see him coming and they change him. You look very good, but that’s not why when I’m old I don’t

Pay attention to them anymore. It hasn’t gotten me out of it yet… I read all this without glasses yet and my memory is quite old. I’m old. My bones are all old, like I have to cut bricks in my knees. The wheelbarrow was worn out, millions of bricks

To walk and my waist, the doctor told me that I have a dry viper, my spine is all twisted and he goes out to tour the town, I don’t eat very little every day,

He gives me something for him and I take care of all the people there. inside I sat the shadow I repo the winter I sun the summer the shadow 28 years old in a stall with a cow

Here the pecón grabbed me with 10 son here 108 from the field side slaughterhouse brick factory sold milk brick already founded my father in the year 18 when he left 6% brick per cl I had 18 of various water fields To finish the

Family, I asked for help from the mayor to get 50. The rural house had a good cabin truck and a tractor and it is in the house. And what was it like to live inside the house?

Sometimes he ate what he hunted what he liked that he had the ability to hunt and to fish habun from the Paraguay station there was kingpa very big carp to carve with Li then there was Paloma much the mean the chicks before they fly when he sees that they were about to fly

[Music] the To come here there was almost 30 km to a town that had a catango that was left behind because the track when it came back did all the moving with the train. Then when it passed very hard

A bridge didn’t run the TR and I was left looking after a Cat, there was a little fox to bring the things and well he brought me merchandise he had little time when mer brought me for me the manager went on a bicycle

To look for it and then they took the things out and he left there was no more TR nothing left the station and appealing to his good memory What very vivid memories do he have of de The time when I was born was

What was before I saw him born and I saw him die on May Avenue. When I was born there was not a single house. The first thing was school and when I was 7 years old I told my mother that

The school was Mel, they did it for me, we did it, the two brothers did it, my teacher was a native of blue Ju tu p los santos, even she alone knew how to have up to 53 students and she took care of it by herself I

Enjoyed the school later I got together with a schoolmate there was a dance, a dance floor in front of the church had no roof or dirt floor, they watered it before dancing and But I had two partners to practice dancing, there is also the need to inaugurate a dance floor

, La Tierrita said thousands of applauses. Play chord and we baptized her La Tierrita because we White the old bath and black not the earth and that they watered so much dancing dried up and flew that because they danced a lot it had no

Roof at all one that iron chair that gave the beer kil the customers spent a lot on an iron table and a chair of iron if you leas Pía have us Have an ice cream parlor

And in front we took refuge Ah same ice cream parlor owner and the cythera and we were leaving it stopped to rain What other businesses were there in the town it was all a hotel and it was not a

Hotel lodging and the residential areas that were rented were not there food but then butcher shop, warehouse and butcher shop, first there was no butcher shop, a truck delivered meat, then they set up a very good butcher shop, up to nine steers per week, and

There was no bakery either; When I saw the car I increased the price a lot, just like the 10 year old C Rancher and the 30 year old one. The price changed now and now it changes every day. The price changed. Cos. And how many inhabitants were there at

That time? How many people lived? 10,000 never exceeded 1,500. They worked. There they lived where they worked, I saw a farm and with that they created a cow, a chicken boat and a sheep with 4 months, they lasted until the next year. Because launa gives you

Two minerals, in the summer it gives you a large and bitter salt that is impossible to eat and in the winter it is sulfate. of white sodium 10 years Ah produced a lot of sac a lot of value es levaba make salt

Carried from brother I don’t know products shop from brother er owner of the Federal soap factory all the wagons dec never for useb launa was flooded on the 18th it reached car bar worker My father

Was here at that time and he came from the belly of the water and then he came again. When I was 5 years old, there was an architect from the church and I looked at him because he only had one arm and one day I asked him,

Was he 5 years old? A bullet hit him. The war took me out when I was 14 and then my father told him a Playa Blanca Salu 18 Ah before 100 years and he stayed and came back long before I say 100 years he came back before 80

And did not make a defense they worked for 4 years and it was worse he rented from beating water a How many meters did the water reach is the tank 12 Met it reached almost Cachito up it broke the shore here but in the middle it had

23 Met 23 Met according to the firefighters who measured it and it never had more than cu 3 4 Met of course the whole lagoon even no It has espo all of the dirt floor mud sand iron floor salt down everything and the people who lived here someone visits it comes to visit

Yes I saw there are some old school friends left I came here with and also the 18 years old quaba vaca after low the water I bought Chivo and they raised him in the ruins and he came pasture

And there were three islands from here to the town, one to the slaughterhouse and another beyond and even C had a boat nephew gave me a tire Tena gave me a flat tractor tire I attached it and had all the

Patience, tranquility, I ended up in the pasture, an island passed by the other sheep, I loaded four or five sheep into the boat and coupled them with another four c, I unwashed them and returned on their trip

And I did better there, but here not the first thing they came, they fit in, they came to look at the There was no one there, it wasn’t fenced. They didn’t charge either, they weren’t clear, they were seen, they were getting off,

Terp, they were taking a bath, I say they’re going to come because on the 18th it was full, it was flooded and the water was in the bar too . The Terra did not Fail because the hundred were some

Large stones like this they brought as a lamp and they put thick woven wire on it was foundation then it had almost 6 Met of earth everything and as if they had put something but at 4 years it ate

Fabric and the stone scattered and it was right in the middle, there the water had not gone down a bit. On the 18th it flooded and on the 36th it was already normal and this took a long time. I don’t know if more water came in but it

Took longer, of course, under the water it was there for how many years, this 30 years, I didn’t see when. He went down under all Ranch You saw the walls that he turned everything over there was no habitable house of course if the salt was iron the first thing he eat

[Music] Iron is a bagged product the stones there cento breaks it And what do you imagine for the future of pecuen was with I only spoke to them by bicycle, that the reputation they had as Cativ, that it was real, that they were going to

Come back, they stopped bathing, people always come, they didn’t come back, people didn’t come back, when they could, they bathed, people came, but here they had all the comfort, close to the water, many Europeans came, of course. there were four

Jewish hotels for it, noels Jews but they left much earlier 40 they left for some balls that are in the Pampa a salty one but edible salt is not like this of course they left

For they left before the disaster it was not left they sold it it was not left There was only one hotel, El Eden, of four Jewish hotels, which for them were no more than a language. There, they spoke the food, a lot of European people, and they also

Went to bathe. One year they called it the Sea of ​​Silver . the food Angel parrill I negotiated to sleep you have to be trucks DM co 27000 people months you are the only inhabitant long ago only 28 years not even a neighbor

Had the railway there the TR El Jefe passed there and that he burst overflowed over there and burst He reigned so high up there in the Pampa and he went back and here the launa that was going ate fish

Killed everything he also came back or so much he entered he returned clearly to the fish your family wants you to live here now or noar first they were boys they had er they went They left high school and went to

Work to help their mother. The mother also worked. I raised a calf. I helped her. We had a good time. I saw a lot of tourists who came camping because they always came to swim. I came to a beach. Ah, I

Came because they criticized me because I got nothing. I paid nothing. I sold nothing. The kids are going to live somewhere else or they are already thinking of staying here, not now they want to take my daughter and they didn’t let me come because I had my

Hip, I was hospitalized for six months, I had a month left to leave, the pandemic came, I was imprisoned for a year, my only daughter through the window and he escaped and came back here but when there was no pandemic I

Fell and I was admitted to rehabilitation and the ABC from London came to sign me and he went there. The boss was happy to film him in the nursing home in the backyard and then my daughter came here. We signed here

Early in the morning, I told him, I told him, Launa, no, but here we disinfect with alcohol gel. I told him, in my house I have 53 gr staples . and she didn’t go home and the daughter made up for it a little because here

The foreigners and the pests came from there and she was there I said no I want to go now and here if she drinks wine I told her when it was bottle first of all a joke grandson who always He accompanied me,

He handled the foreigners, he spoke two languages ​​plus English and he also spoke Italian and he helped me and I got him hooked Grandpa, what do you need, winter is coming and I need a coat and blanket, clothes I don’t have, I don’t have too much and I’m inside

To warm up after French a movie s days filming there The company from France told me when they were leaving What do you need and what do you need most? I need a coat, the winter is coming. Ah, he says, I

Go there when I get there in spring and above all I leave him. Above all, I don’t say that I have a coat inside when I come, tequila , up there, go up there, have some little things I had the best there was whiskey that was made only for cruises that was

Very delicious luxury ended up the only thing Luisito came to sign me elito I didn’t know him I slept under a plant he was having a mate and with conas And he drank

La bella for Ho he liked it And He took three drinks and it was sweet because I added 200 grams of sea honey and he started to move the cap on his glasses. He was restless and gave this guy a backpack

Under the plant that had more money. I didn’t know him and we left and they gave us 21 million. the boy’s movie and that program for boys all the boys 18 and under You were with Luisito is Ah

Yes That was very well known yes yes when the film finished it went well he went out to tour some countries there he sent me a book one of these AC This book got a note Who sent it to him he sent it I also have criticism Ah the criticisms

Are always there this is the book that gave me the most a nephew I went to visit my sister San Vicente and nephew that you left They wrote a book for you I made a notes AC [Music] they didn’t

Take advantage of it he didn’t talk to me the book was made but no I didn’t talk to you no Oh yeah it’s like you say you’re not from here the daughter said fame that you’re 90 years old you have to travel and

I still have to walk Buenos Airesa bike for a year But it’s true you have to spend energy on that, let them talk, it’s already mate with burrito I don’t mix grass Tom bitter Yes I drink m in the morning after I don’t drink all day wine s cane I drink something everything

But hey I wait for it to warm up No thanks And you gather this firewood all this firewood audan losos Yes if you are there winter the first of May I on August 30

Oh you already have the date it is set the morning I made him a child he came back so big and the hand on he moves it a little bit and he comes out laughing, how peaceful it is here, please,

I don’t have people now, go later, I’m saying, they’re going to come there, the bathroom is going to be finished, and they’re coming to where they bathe, there they have a year to go after that, you have to run here Ah

You say it because it is dry there and they come here, the lagoon is drying up, that was never the place to swim, it was not this. Of course, I tell you, I have a doctor who came here, he supports

The lagoon a lot and has studied the water a lot and he asks me where. We are going to do it now it is original you can fix Elra there ready put a downpipe there there will not always be much water but it will be the mayor here

You one thing came a guy came a bite Tom some inzanos made me a note I told him that here from Monday to Friday the mayor plays some [Music] on Saturday and Sunday and a magazine came out in not a single Buenos Aires and you watch the videos then you watch the movies

And they send them to the How do you get the phone and do they personally send me the device, they have everything I see and to eat they bring you the food you also see. They come on Sundays. Tomorrow they come so do a general cleaning but you are going to vote tomorrow

Oh on the other hand the repetition I am going to I never go but I don’t have to I like to go I didn’t remember they told me they come and look for you a lot of relatives I have in San Vicente in a landlord in San Nicolás Oh

Spread out everywhere roj had six sisters and only one stayed here others married people who came to see or to work, a married woman died and both of them died, they were in Punta Chica and Punta Chica, San Vicente was far away, and but I always visited them, another one

In Casar also died, the other two San Nicolá also died, the two Rojas also died, two older sisters who also died. They had So my brother died last year 9 years old, they are

From a family that for many years yes my wife died at 91 I was born in third place and with this record I am left alone and one the youngest was born I don’t know what year but she is in red Well now You will soon

See everyone next month, everyone is coming here, Christmas is just under a month away. missing No but this is the party I don’t know but birthdays everyone celebrates here new year too Christmas gets together sometimes everyone prefers their own house but I say sometimes

Everyone gets together I have 10 children all 10 are lost winter Jen and a young nu too but he gave nothing, one died of cancer, he left two grandchildren and another heart attack, one left three grandchildren, I was born here and I came back

Here, I stayed, he tells me what I least thought of, I would take out my cash And that was my friendship, they thanked me, but after filming and he became an actor without want these days now that I walk a little walk there

Court old artist imagined when he was young he was acting then he was there enjoy all the parties I enjoyed it dancing they came AC

Circus I didn’t miss anything It’s been a long time since I went to Buenos Aires I didn’t go with the grandson he says I’m going to the bus the car papers this year was that 2 years ago Yes but we are going to do 2000 km No yes

Good km back Ah no I will accompany you we are going to do 2 km we took a long period we went to San Vicente to visit a sister I had there after brance I had nephews Well, we went, I had a

Sister in the landlord, we went to the landlord, the landlord, we went to Guilla, Ela, and I went there. Nicolás had a son-in-law and a sister, and the two of them died, leaving grandchildren there. We went to Roja, I also had a sister, and I had a nephew, from there, Chuc. a

Little nephew came here and when we got here we left Saturday and came back Monday queer night 2018 km calculated s a tour they did there happy we’re going to come back we’re going to do it again well Pao I’m going to go so I’ll

Let him rest rest he encourages us to take a photo at the door well take a photo there Ah it’s there it seems like I’m lucky and I read a lot Also here I sit sometimes in the afternoon I read the newspaper I always give the day [Music] Ah yes it’s going to

Arrive I walk like a lost sheep that feels bad How’s the girl doing Lost, disoriented no Looking for the drawer no no no di es esad it ‘s not easy to get there it’s not true that’s yes yes I think about it and it’s incredible it’s almost like

I have no food supplies Rem half a little a little for the pain of the pata But that S eat as well as I cook to my liking clo ito it still doesn’t hurt me I’ve eaten

A lot of polenta with Colorado chorizo ​​and my girlfriend is a fan of the polenta fanatic of the well prepared polenta nice for the winter as more lian tarina and that’s of course No but it goes

To arrive but impeccable it will arrive not there I’m afraid that with the salt I will never spoil the water here there are biscuits Oh the mate for the mate Don’t forget anything because you are too far away to come I have to do 700 km back well Pablo, I’m

Leaving, you’re going to leave, well, Pablo, well, good luck, say hello to your girlfriend, I’ll come with her to visit you and I’ll see you here, surely, well, thank you very much for the visit and for the gift, no, please, see you well [Music] good luck

[Music] look at this contrast of what it was before and what it is now and these ruins that are here belonged to the Russian princess Ernestina Leontina Alar, which is a residence that she had built

While she was building a castle, it doesn’t even have a sign here ative but because of the tiles and the arrangement of these Pillars that are inside there, I imagine that it was a butcher shop. It is incredible how the salt was eating everything that was metal and an image that is repeated

A lot are these types of houses abandoned all over The town is incredible. You can see that these trees were under water for a long time and you can see a perfect cut on the top and behind me. You can find what was the Monterreal hotel, which was built

By Pascual di Domenico and this hotel contained 62 beds distributed in 31 rooms, the façade is preserved quite well but inside everything is destroyed and this was a hotel that was built in 1928 and had 168 beds. Look at those completely desolate streets, it looks like a

Ghost town and this here would be The remains of the Provincial Bank My back is what would once be the Corradini residence, which began as a hair salon but over time they added places for people to stay in this place. Notice that the staircase is still standing.

It is still intact And this is where the people came to dance. Notice that the hall is marked but nothing was left standing. Yes, I don’t know what the salt flat is. It was eating a cylindrical shape. But if anyone

Knows, leave it in the comments. It is said that 20% of the water content is salt, that is, the concentration of salt in this water is high. Notice that here were the stools attached

To the spa for people to sit on, and if I’m not mistaken, this would be the showers and here are the pools. They had water from the lake and there was also this toán that you threw directly into

The pool of the spa and 2 km before reaching the ruin of Pecuen is the slaughterhouse, the work of Francisco Salamone, which was inaugurated in 1938 and which remained under water for two [ Music] decades from this humble bench in the plaza of epq I say goodbye I hope you liked the

Video I think this is one of the videos that I most enjoyed making I have wanted to know Pablo’s story for a long time and also the story of this town so good if you liked it I

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El 18 de noviembre pasado viajé a conocer al ÚNICO HABITANTE DE EPECUÉN y ahí estaba, en su casita perdida entre tanta desolación.
Al llegar, me encontré con una persona de esas que escasean, con una notable memoria, intacta, a pesar del paso del tiempo y la calidez para hacerte sentir “como en casa”. Sobre todo, con la firme convicción de mantener viva la historia de un pueblo que ya no existía. 
De este viaje me llevo un gran aprendizaje y sobretodo, un gran amigo.
Vuela alto querido PABLO NOVAK.