Puerto Rivero is the name the cóndores — the newcomers of the flight diverted to the Malvinas (Operativo Cóndor, 1966) — gave the islands’ settlement, in honor of the gaucho Antonio Rivero and his resistance of 1833. Where the English write Stanley, they write Rivero.
| Type | Settlement |
| Location | Malvinas |
| Other names | Puerto Argentino, Port Stanley |
| Spanish entry | Puerto Rivero |
Description
Renaming is already a way of claiming the ground: the orderly, cold town that receives them stands on an expelled Argentine history. The last settlers before the British drove them out were the Vernet family; the sovereignty dispute of 1833 — the occupation and the monument that consecrates it — is the scar the settlement covers with its neat houses.
Three strata
The islands say the same thing three ways, and Puerto Rivero is where they touch: the age of stone, older than everything, kept by the blue mineral like a sleeping organ; the age of history — the gaucho Rivero, the Vernets, the flag lowered in 1833; and the age of the deep, what thrives under the water and under island hospitality. The ground the cóndores tread already had an owner long before 1966.