The Echegoyen, “the Echegoyen of Beloc”, are the landowning family of Claromecó and Beloc, controlling the land, dealings with outsiders and the Lighthouse: “The Echegoyen own everything here.”
| Type | Family |
| Spanish entry | Echegoyen |
History
Before them came the Beloc, French and Basque-French, “the ones who were there before him”. From them come the place name and the family’s role in founding the Lighthouse; its nature (money, land or labor) is not specified.
Holdings
- The estancia, close to town: a well-built house with a porch and many rooms, some let to passing guests.
- The Lighthouse: its guards obey Don Echegoyen’s word, not regulations (“What will Don Echegoyen say? That he always told us to take good care of the lighthouse”).
- Adolfo Alcina 477, the town address where Pepe Echegoyen receives visitors through intermediaries; Armando Cabo arranges such meetings.
Coming “on behalf of” Echegoyen opens doors with some; to other townspeople he is “that oligarch”.
Members
- The owner: mother of Pupe Echegoyen; mentioned, never described.
- Pupe / Pepe / Puppet Echegoyen: heir, “son of the owner”, landowning oligarch.
- Laurita / Laura Echegoyen: a local resident, stated to be Puppet’s daughter.
- Pupe’s grandmother: a famous nudist of the 1940s. Laurita “did not know about the kidnapping of her grandmother”; whether a kidnapping really happened is unclear.
- Siblings: they exist; number and inheritance shares are unknown.
Conflicting accounts
- Laurita appears as Puppet’s daughter and as one who learns late about the grandmother “of her grandmother”; whether she is the heir’s sister or daughter cannot be reconciled.
Open questions
- Whether Pupe, Pepe, Puppet and Don Echegoyen are one person is presumed, not stated.
- What dependence ties the townspeople to the family.
- Buildings, land boundaries and distances between town, estancia and Lighthouse are not recorded.