[ noun ] region in southern South America between the Andes and the South Atlantic <noun.location>
Patagonia now offers a chemically-altered polyester called Capilene, which has gone through anti-microbial treatment to help the fabric reject odour. DuPont has also come up with some important new materials.
Part documentary, part performance art, Patagonia does honour to both Wales and to pioneers. Its first parts remind me a lot of Martha Graham's greatest work, the 1944 Appalachian Spring.
But nowhere is it stronger than in Chilean Patagonia.
But many have left Patagonia to sign on for ranch work in the U.S. West.
Mr Raul Assef, who owns a 1,500-hectare farm on the western edge of Patagonia, says 'both my wife and I work in town and use our wages to cover the loss of running the farm.
People who want to wear the same thermals as space shuttle astronauts can choose Capilene underwear by Patagonia, in three different weights.
Those fluffy de rigeur winter duds that Patagonia puts out as Capilene and Synchilla are made of the same stuff Malden Mills calls Polartec, they said.
This stands on the northern edge of Patagonia, an area about twice the size of France, that is currently occupied by just 4% of Argentina's 30 million inhabitants, along with tens of millions of sheep.