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At the beginning of 1781, a little village named "Nueva Colonia y Fuerte de Floridablanca" was founded near Puerto San Julián (Santa Cruz province, Argentina). It belonged to a project of the Spanish Crown in the times of the King Charles III to protect its sovereignty on the South Atlantic.
In Floridablanca the modern ideas of the Spanish Enlightment were experimented in a novel settlement plan. Despite its bright beginning, after less than four years the colony was abandoned.
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