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  • After 25 years under water, ghost town comes up for air in Argentina

    05/10/2013 4:35:13 PM PDT · by Pan_Yan · 11 replies
    CBS News ^ | May 10, 2013, 10:41 AM | AP
    EPECUEN, Argentina A strange ghost town that spent a quarter century under water is coming up for air again in the Argentine farmlands southwest of Buenos Aires. Epecuen was once a bustling little lakeside resort, where 1,500 people served 20,000 tourists a season. During Argentina's golden age, the same trains that carried grain to the outside world brought visitors from the capital to relax in Epecuen's saltwater baths and spas. ... Then a particularly heavy rainstorm followed a series of wet winters, and the lake overflowed its banks on Nov. 10, 1985. Water burst through a retaining wall and spilled...