southwest cooper rasha Moved by ties, interests, affinities and stories, I will try to build, in a very personal and intimate way, the idea and value of community, of belonging to a place. Medanense is how those of us living in Médanos, a small town in the southwest of the province of Buenos Aires, are called. Médanos was founded in 1897 with the arrival of the railroad. Its population has an immigrant background, mostly Italian from the region of Marche, and Spanish and Jews, who came from Moisés Ville (Santa Fe, Argentina) which was founded in 1906. It was one of the first two independent colonies of the Jewish Colonization Association, a philanthropic association (based in Paris until 1949) which had chosen Santa Fe, Entre Ríos and La Pampa as locations for the arrival and establishment of the Jewish settlers to Argentina. Other immigrants who chose this destination were Russian, German, Chilean and Arab. They engaged in trade, construction, agriculture and livestock, enhancing Médanos in the decades of the 60s and 70s as the largest producer of garlic in the country and in the world. Even today it is known as the National Capital of Garlic, where the conditions of the soil and climate produce savoury and spicy iodine-rich garlic. 130124 what's it to you? who go blather from